I've had a little bit of progress. If I specify 'no-hardware' in /etc/directfbrc, then I get /some/ kind of picture (video clip at http://pod.nation-net.com/softdevice2.mpg ).. However unless I use mode=640x480 in /etc/directfbrc, vdr crashes at startup: (*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2005-07-02 14:20) (*) Direct/Memcpy: Using SSE optimized memcpy() (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'VT Switcher' (CRITICAL, 31508)... (*) Direct/Thread: Running 'Keyboard Input' (INPUT, 31517)... (!!!) *** UNIMPLEMENTED [fusion_reactor_set_lock] *** [reactor.c:802] (*) DirectFB/Input: Keyboard 0.9 (convergence integrated media GmbH) (*) DirectFB/Genefx: MMX detected and enabled (*) DirectFB/Graphics: ATI Mach64 GT 0.13 (Ville Syrjala) (*) DirectFB/Graphics: Acceleration disabled (by 'no-hardware') (*) DirectFB/Core/WM: Default 0.2 (Convergence GmbH) [dfb] Supported video Modes are: 640x480@8 800x600@8 640x480@8 720x576@16 800x600@8 768x576@32 704x576@16 640x480@8 640x480@8 640x480@8 800x600@8 800x600@8 800x600@8 800x600@8 800x600@8 800x600@8 1024x576@32 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1024x768@8 1152x864@8 1152x864@8 1152x864@8 1152x864@8 1152x864@8 1152x864@8 1280x960@8 1280x960@16 1280x960@32 1024x1024@8 1280x1024@8 1280x1024@8 1280x1024@8 1280x1024@8 1280x1024@8 1600x1200@8 1600x1200@8 1600x1200@8 [dfb] Enumeratig display Layers Layer 0 FBDev Primary Layer Type: graphics Caps: brightness contrast saturation surface Layer 1 Mach64 Overlay Type: picture video Caps: brightness dst_colorkey saturation screen_location src_colorkey surface [surface capabilities] scrSurface: primary videoonly double-buffered flipping [dfb] width = 800, height = 600 [dfb] got fmt = 0x00418c04 bpp = 32 (!) [31501: 0.000] --> Caught signal 6 (unknown origin) <-- Killed Again, any and all suggestions welcome :) Cheers, Gavin.