Re: [Freevo-users] matrox advice

[Philip A. <ph...@ka...>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:30:57AM -0400, Buckley Hopper wrote:
>First off, the config files Philip Armstrong posted were a particular 
>help in getting things up and running on my new matrox card.  Thanks 
>very much!

A pleasure!

>One thing I notice is that the first time I start freevo, it displays on 
>the primary rather than the secondary head.  I have worked around this 
>by executing fbset -vyres 480 before running freevo.  I'm not sure why 
>that fixes it for the first run, but it does.  All subsequent runs work.

I *think* this is because you haven't got a matching modeline in
/etc/fb.modes for the mode set in /etc/freevo/freevo.conf

I have the following tagged on the end of my /etc/fb.modes:

#
#   DirectFB video modes, should be placed into "/etc"
# 

mode "640x480 75Hz 16bit"
    # D: 31.50 MHz, H: 37.500 kHz, V: 75.00 Hz
    geometry 640 480 640 480 16
    timings 31747 120 16 16 1 64 3
endmode
 
mode "720x576 50Hz 16bit"
    geometry 720 576 720 576 16
    timings 31208 144 40 32 10 128 3
endmode

mode "768x576 75Hz 16bit"
    # D: 49.188 MHz, H: 46.580 kHz, V: 75.008 Hz
    geometry 768 576 768 576 16
    timings 20330 128 32 32 8 128 5
endmode


mode "800x600 75Hz 16bit"
    # D: 49.50 MHz, H: 46.875 kHz, V: 75.00 Hz
    geometry 800 600 800 600 16
    timings 20203 160 16 21 1 80 3
    hsync high
    vsync high
endmode

Try it and see...

>Do you guys who run in directfb run the frontend as 
>root?  It seems like that might solve all my problems, but I'm hesitant 
>because I had it set up before to run as the freevo user and the 
>recordserver is still set up that way.

Yeah, I run everything as root: it's a dedicated mediabox, so it isn't
really a security problem in that there's nothing much to compromise &
freevo doesn't listen to the network anyway. (Or at least my
installation of freevo doesn't...)

cheers, Phil

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