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

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:43:18AM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> ahh.
> it would be great to have textmode

You might want to check out DFBTerm. It's a native DirectFB terminal
emulator. It's based on gnome-terminal. I haven't tried it myself at this
point so I don't know how well it works.

> or accelerated (not via fbdev) X on 1st
> head while playing movie to TV via second head :)

You can do this with XDirectFB. In fact I'm using XDirectFB right now. 
What's even cooler about XDirectFB is that you can have transparent
windows :) You must compile DirectFB with multi-application core support
if you want to run multiple apps simultaneosly.

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Ville Syrjälä
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