On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 14:18 +0200, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
Laurence Abbott a écrit :
I'm currently setting up and testing an Epia MII13000 system using the xine plugin and the S-Video output. The quality of this is now quite good as long as you use a new version of the Unichrome driver which supports the 720x576Noscale modes (for PAL, at least: I think there are equivalent modes for NTSC).
I plan to merge that mode back to the frame-buffer driver. Are you really happy with this it ?
It is a marked improvement over the overscan modes and something like 800x600. When I first got the board, the output was really bad. I eventually found it was because it was running at 1024x768 (rather than the 720x576 I'd asked for) and this was being scaled to 720x576 by the encoder chip giving a really nasty flickery and blurry image.
I think this mode is still in the unichrome CVS repository (ie. not released yet).
It's an Epia MII that I've got which has the VT1622a rather than the VT122 encoder chip and the Noscale mode wasn't available for it until I hacked one together.
What is the current status of softdevice / frambuffer / HW acceleration for the CLE266 chipset? Are there any up-to-date HOWTOs for this? I looked into this a couple of months back and there seemed to be a lot of conflicting information! Is it now simply a case of installing DirectFB and setting permissions on /dev/fb/0, or whatever? What kernel modules are needed, and are they they stock kernel via framebuffer driver, or do I need a CVS checkout for that?
I was trying to get softdevice to work under Gentoo which was a complete nightmare. Changed to Debian and things were much easier, although I had moved onto the X / xine method by then.
I'm only running X at the moment because I got that to work! I have no other need for it on that box.
;)
Cheers,
Laz