Hi Nicolas! First the good news: It works! I can see a picture! Thanks a lot! I'm not shure what was wrong before, but maybe I made a big mistake: dfbg sets the background, but only for a very short time. Looks like that it switches back to a black screen after exit. I found another strange thing in my syslog: kernel: viafb: 0 interrupt requests serviced. kernel: viafb: VIA UNICHROME framebuffer 1.0 initializing kernel: viafb: viafb : DCB80000 kernel: viafb: framebuffer size = 64 Mb kernel: viafb: Found Device Rev:0 kernel: viafb: X:1024 Y:768 kernel: viafb: mode=1024 bpp=32 refresh=60 TVon=0 TVtype=1 kernel: viafb: VQ start:3FC0000 end:3FFFFFF size:40000 kernel: viafb: Cursor start:3FBF000 end:3FBFFFF size:1000 kernel: viafb: mode=1024 bpp=32 refresh=255 TVon=0 TVtype=1 kernel: setmode x:1024 y:768 bpp:32 kernel: viafb: irq handler installed, IRQ(0x200) = 80080c02 kernel: fb0: UNICHROME frame buffer device What is the second "refresh=255" about? > You must also load the fbcon kernel module (I'm not sure about what > kernel options make it compile). This one allows tghe kernel to use a > frame-buffer console. Needed on 2.6, not on 2.4, and only if you use the > console keyboard/screen. I did not use fbcon, cause I don't need it. My HTPC is a set-top-box only, I don't even have a keyboard connected. *Not* using fbcon has another *real big* advantage: This way you can unload and reload the viafb module with different parameters! > viafb mode=720x576 bpp=32 refresh=50 TVon=1 TVoverscan=1 I had to use TVon=0 because my TV has VGA-in and is connected to the VGA of the Epia. >> I tried to compile the viafb driver from viaarena, but this driver does >> not compile with my 2.6.11 kerenl (lots of warnings, and errors about >> "structure has no member 'cursor'). > This one is old and closed-source, isn't it ? Well, the last release seems to be from Feb 2005, so not that old... > My /etc/directfbrc : > mode=720x576 > #mode=800x600 > #mode=1024x768 720x576 does not work here, but 800x600, 1024x768, and even 1280x768 (which seems to be the real resolution of my 16:9 TV) But the TV does nasty things: looks like it scales the 1280 down to 1024, and then back to 1280 when switched to 16x9 :-( Ihave to investigate this further.... > disable-module=cle266 Hmmm... why should I disable the cle266 module??? bye, Michael -- Michael Reinelt <reinelt@xxxxxxxx> http://home.pages.at/reinelt GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50 ICQ #288386781
