G400 & Yoper Linux

[Ribbit]

Heh, glad I could help <raises glass>

[englishpremier]

The Yoper team didn't really say very much other than that they use XFree 4.4 unlike most other distros and also that it is XF86Config and not XF86Config-4 that should be edited.

Everything is working but now i can't get my monitor in anything higher than 60hz (headache time). and despite having the clone option turned on the TV is acting as a completly different screen rather than a clone of my monitor. Any fixes for these?

[Ribbit]

IIRC, XFree86 will look for XF86Config-4 first, and only look at XF86Config if it doesn't find the -4 file.

Looking at the Matrox release notes again, I notice they don't specify "RightOf" or anything similar in their example config. Try taking that out, so it just reads:

Screen "Screen[0]"
Screen "Screen[1]"

RightOf etc. doesn't make any sense for clone mode.

No idea yet about your monitor running at 60Hz. Surely it's not a hardware limitation (anyone)? I'm sure I used to have 2 monitors at different refreshes when I used my G400.

Dumb thought: You did only put the TV config lines in one (the second) device section, right?

[englishpremier]

removing "RightOf" just means that i can no longer gain access to the other screen. It is there but i can't use it, so that went straight back in.

I even tried using the SAX-2 configuration utill and it says dual head mode active, clone mode. but still what i am seeing on my TV is a completly seperate desktop, not a clone.

[Ribbit]

I looked (yet again) at the Matrox notes, and I notice they have Xinerama turned on in their example config. Like:

Option "Xinerama"

No "On" or "Off". Odd.

If that doesn't work, you can try this really ugly hack:

Screen "Screen[1]" Relative "Screen[0]" 0 0

And now I'm pretty sure I'm out of ideas....

[englishpremier]

Option "Xinerama" No "On" or "Off"

this messed up X and it wouldn't load.

I haven't tried the other method you mentiond yet though.

With option clone "on"
option Xinerama "on"

I do get a clone of sorts but on the TV i only get the top left hand corner of my desktop.

[englishpremier]

albatorsk are you still around.

I know have X on the TV thanks to Rabbit, but i was going over what you said earlier in the thread and attempted your method again too. everything compiled correctly and i frambuffer support and directfb etc..

whenever i try to run something using mplayer from the console it begins to load and my TV even changes from a picture of my desktop to a blank screen, but then mplayer exists again.


root@yos MPlayer-1.0pre5 # mplayer -vo dfbmga /mnt/d/The_Simple_Life_-_2x09_-_Episode_9.LOL.[www.the-realworld.de].xvid.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team

CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP/XP-M Barton 2206 MHz (Family: 6, Stepping: 0)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
MMX supported but disabled
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
3DNow supported but disabled
3DNowExt supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or directory
Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: This codecs.conf is too old and incompatible with this MPlayerrelease! at line 6
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing /mnt/d/The_Simple_Life_-_2x09_-_Episode_9.LOL.[www.the-realworld.de].xvid.avi.
Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 512x384 12bpp 29.970 fps 1050.1 kbps (128.2 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Software: HUH?
Name:
Subject:
Artist:
Copyright:
Comments:
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
MP3lib: init layer2&3 finished, tables done
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 20000->192000 (160.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
(*) 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. (with MMX support) (2004-10-17 15:05)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMXEXT optimized memcpy()
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 31137)...
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 31138)...
(*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse (1) 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'PS/2 Input' (INPUT, 31139)...
(*) DirectFB/Input: IMPS/2 Mouse (2) 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
(*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 31140)...
(*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
(*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled
(*) DirectFB/Graphics: MMX Software Rasterizer 0.6 (convergence integrated media GmbH)
(*) DirectFB/WM: Default 0.1 (Convergence GmbH)
Can't get CRTC2 layer - Not supported!
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.


Exiting... (End of file)
(!!!) *** WARNING [Application exited without deinitialization of DirectFB!] *** [core.c:638 in dfb_core_deinit_check()]
root@yos MPlayer-1.0pre5 #




I get the error above. Do you have any more light to shed on the situation?

Thank you.

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by englishpremier
I do get a clone of sorts but on the TV i only get the top left hand corner of my desktop.

The TV output is probably running at 640x480. Is it a virtual desktop - can you scroll around it with the mouse?

I've seen laptops do TV-out at up to 1024x768, so hopefully you can set your TV-out to do the same.