[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Matrox G400 TV out w/ DirectFB (resend)

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:21:59AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:27:09PM +0100, Zoltan Ponekker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hali
> > > 
> > > > Attachments as base64 this time...
> > > 
> > > Argh. Please ... use mime encoding ...
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean. I think my mail has correct mime headers. Can
> > you explain what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> nothing, it's ok. ignore his mail
> (it was ok first time too, but i lost the patch, sorry)

Ok. I hadn't read patches.txt before so I didn't use base64 then.

> i'm just trying to get directfb working, does it really need fbdev support?

Yes. It uses fbdev for mode switching and such. And with matrox cards you
also get IRQ based vblank waiting with the patch included with DirectFB.

> it seems that the included (in dfb) matrox driver has everything needed to
> enable 2nd head, bes, crtc2.

Yes all crtc2 stuff is programmed from DirectFB but you still need fbdev
for the primary head. It's not possible to use only crtc2.

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Ville Syrjälä
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