[vdr] Re: softdevice and DirectFB with Matrox G450

[Stefan Lucke <stefan@lucke.in-berlin.de>]

Quoting 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

You may want to add:

primary-layer=2

to get the OSD on tv-out too.

> [dfb] Using this layer for OSD: FBDev Primary Layer
> [dfb] Using this layer for Video out: Matrox CRTC2 Layer

OSD shown on first head, video shown on tv-out ;-) .

Stefan Lucke