[vdr] Re: softdevice and DirectFB with Matrox G450

[rupert <h.engemann@az-lantech.de>]

Try to set the primary layer to 2 in the directfbrc if you use the
second Port on youre card.

primary-layer=2 i think, my machine istn on atm.

Am Dienstag, den 11.01.2005, 15:06 +0000 schrieb Tony Houghton:
> I've just installed a Matrox G450 with the intention of using the
> softdevice plugin, but I can't get it to work. There is no sound and the
> picture is just white dashes flickering on a black background. I'm using
> VDR 1.3.17-6.ds and softdevice 0.0.8.
> 
> I select the plugin with -P"softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv". I only found out
> about the -vo by happening on it in this mailing list; why is softdevice
> almost completely undocumented? I also tried -ao alsa and -ao oss to see
> if that would at least get sound working, but they didn't. In
> /etc/directfbrc I have:
> 
> matrox-crtc2
> matrox-tv-standard=pal
> mode=720x576
> depth=32
> memcpy=mmxext
> no-graphics-vt
> no-vt-switching
> no-vt-switch
> 
> The last 3 options are supposed to stop DirectFB applications from
> needing root privileges, but they don't work (nor for MPlayer). So I had
> to reverse the deb's run_as_root patch to make it start at all.
> 
> I had to get rid of the poison pragmas to be able to compile softdevice:
> libdirectfb or DFB++ use thread-unsafe functions. Could that be a cause
> of the problem? Anyway, here's VDR's output:
> 
> [video] /home/tony # LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.21 vdr --video=/video --config=/var/lib/vdr --lib=/usr/lib/vdr/plugins/ -P"softdevice -vo dfb:mgatv" -Premote
> [softdevice] processing args
> [softdevice]   argv [0] = softdevice
> [softdevice]   argv [1] = -vo
> [softdevice] initializing Plugin
> [softdevice] Initializing Video Out
> [softdevice] ffmpeg version(0.4.9-pre1) build(4718)
> [dfb] init
> (*) DirectFB/Config: Parsing config file '/etc/directfbrc'.
> 
>        ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.21 ---------------------
>              (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
>              (c) 2002-2004  convergence GmbH
>         -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2005-01-07 18:35)
> (*) Direct/Memcpy: Forced to use MMXEXT optimized memcpy()
> (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 1054)...
>  (!!!)  *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [reactor.c:802]
> (*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse 1.0 (Convergence GmbH)
> (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 1055)...
> (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
> (*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled
> (*) DirectFB/Graphics: Matrox G450 0.7 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
> (*) DirectFB/Core/WM: Default 0.2 (Convergence GmbH)
> [dfb] RAM: 16777216 bytes
> [dfb] Accellerated Functions: FillRectange DrawRectange DrawLine FillTriangle Blit StretchBlit All
> [dfb] Drawing Flags: Blend
> [dfb] Surface Blitting Flags: BlendAlpha BlendColorAlpha Colorize SrcColorkey Deinterlace
> [dfb] Supported video Modes are: 768x576@32 640x480@32 640x480@32 800x600@32 720x576@32
> [dfb] Enumeratig display Layers
> Layer 0 FBDev Primary Layer  Type: graphics
>   Caps: brightness contrast saturation surface
> Layer 1 Matrox Backend Scaler  Type: graphics picture video
>   Caps: brightness contrast deinterlacing dst_colorkey screen_location surface
> Layer 2 Matrox CRTC2 Layer  Type: graphics picture video
>   Caps: brightness contrast flicker_filtering hue saturation surface
> [dfb] width = 720, height = 576
> [dfb] got fmt = 0x00418c04 bpp = 32
> [dfb] Using this layer for OSD: (FBDev Primary Layer - [720x576])
> osdSurface::
>  - videoonly
>  - flipping
> videoSurface::
>  - videoonly
> [dfb] Configuring CooperativeLevel for Overlay
> [dfb] Configuring ColorKeying
> [dfb] Configuring CooperativeLevel for OSD
> [dfb] Using this layer for OSD: FBDev Primary Layer
> [dfb] Using this layer for Video out: Matrox CRTC2 Layer
> [dfb] (re)configuring Videolayer to 720 x 576 (720x576)
> [dfb] creating new surface
> [dfb] (re)configured 0x00200806
> [softdevice] Video Out seems to be OK
> [softdevice] Initializing Audio Out
> [softdevice] Audio out seems to be OK
> [softdevice] A/V devices initialized, now initializing MPEG2 Decoder
> cSoftDevice::MakePrimaryDevice
>