Re: [Marvel-linux] marvel support?

[Matt S. <ch...@em...>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ian Jeffray wrote:

> Matt Sherer wrote:
> > 
> > according to the web page, the g400 marvel-tv is half working,
> > although i seem to remember it being pretty much there, at least
> > for tv viewing.
> 
> After some initial wackybizarreness, it does seem to be working
> ok here.  16MB G400-Marvel-TV, Kernel 2.2.14 under RedHat 6.2,
> using xawtv 3.15

hmm - i've tried 2.2.13 - 2.2.16 here, same results. back to the 
drawing board.

> > xawtv kind of works in overlay mode, and grabdisplay,
> 
> Grabdisplay goes kinda mental on me - spamming the message log.
> Also only shows a blue display (16bpp screen) never mind.
> Oh, and it ignores the window scale - just forces itself to
> 1024x768 at the top left of the screen it seems.
> 

ok, so that's not just me - unfortunately, i need an mmap/read
interface, rather than direct i/o to the display. it kind of works,
something's not quite right, though. haven't found a pattern in
the data yet, to tell if it's something obvious.

> Overlay mode is quite harsh - nothing is allowed to overlap
> the display area - even xawtv's own menu's etc... :-(

i'm seeing the same here, although i'm not locked to a certain
screen location.

--Matt Sherer