From: Antonino A. D. <ad...@ho...> - 2004-11-11 02:43:21
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On Wednesday 10 November 2004 04:29, David Liontooth wrote: > Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > If you have sample XFree86 modelines, you can use the utility > > > >modeline2fb to convert them to entries compatible with /etc/fb.modes. > > Got it -- in Debian, it's part of the fbset package. > > >If I have time, I'll see what's wrong with fbxine. > > That would be awesome -- the ability to play movies in the framebuffer > was the first reason I wanted it, since it would drain the batteries less > than running movies in KDE. > > For some reason, fbxine has stopped working altogether -- I've tried to > reconstruct > the environment in which it worked, but now it just displays the > previous console > page and exits. fbi works great -- slideshows, autoscaling, rotation, > the works. > > I'll test mplayer again too -- it sounds like this may be an mplayer > problem. > > The main remaining annoyance is that you can't remove the rivafb module, You can actually, as long as you don't enable the framebuffer console. This sequence should work: modprobe rivafb mplayer -vo directfb rmmod rivafb Of course you will only have a vga console. > so you > have to reboot to let the nv or nvidia module take over. The rivafb driver and nv should nicely coexist. The nvidia driver is still not compatible with rivafb. Tony |