On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 14:18 +0200, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > Laurence Abbott a ?crit : > > > 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
