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1 Written by Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>, original can be found at
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2 http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/directfb/readme.txt
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3 For more information see also http://www.directfb.org
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4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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5 DirectFB includes TV out support for Matrox G400 cards.
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6 If you've used the Windows drivers you most likely know about
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7 DVDMax... DirectFB provides the same functionality. Now you can get
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8 excellent quality video playback on your TV.
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10 DirectFB TV output features:
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11 - interlaced picture
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12 - 720x576 50Hz PAL and 720x486 60Hz NTSC
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13 - RGB15, RGB16, RGB32, ARGB, YUY2, UYVY, I420, YV12 pixel formats
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14 - hardware blended sub-picure in I420 and YV12 modes
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15 - brightness, contrast, hue, saturation adjustments
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16 - no more tweaking sessions with fbset to get the image centered :)
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18 I recommend you use DirectFB 0.9.15 or later since some vsync problems
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19 were fixed in that release.
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21 Linux kernel setup:
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23 1. Patch your kernel with matroxfb-vsync-c2vline-irq-patch-2.4.19.bz2
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24 It's distributed with DirectFB sources in the patches subdirectory.
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25 This patch enables IRQ based vblank waiting. Make sure your card has
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26 an IRQ assigned to it. You may have an option in the BIOS setup for
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27 this.
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29 2. Add "#define FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC _IOW('F', 0x20, int)" to
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30 /usr/include/linux/fb.h
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32 3. Build and install the kernel. Set the following options:
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33 CONFIG_I2C
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34 CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT
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35 CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV
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36 CONFIG_I2C_PROC
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37 CONFIG_FB_MATROX
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38 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G100
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39 CONFIG_FB_MATROX_I2C
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40 DirectFB doesn't require kernel support for the second head. In fact it may
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41 interfere with the TV out.
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43 4. Make sure you have the proper /dev/i2c-N device file in place.
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44 After loading i2c-matroxfb module you should see MAVEN in
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45 /proc/bus/i2c. You must have the corresponding device file. To
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46 create these files use:
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47 'mknod /dev/i2c-N c 89 N' where N is 0,1,2...
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48 The number might change depending on the order you load i2c modules
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49 so you may want to create some extra files.
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51 DirectFB setup:
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53 1. Build and install DirectFB
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55 2. Use the following DirectFB options:
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56 matrox-crtc2
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57 matrox-tv-standard=pal or ntsc
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58 You can store them in /etc/directfbrc or ~/.directfbrc so that the will be
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59 used every time.
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61 That's pretty much it. Well you do need some applications. mplayer has
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62 a special video out plugin 'dfbmga' for this stuff. You need a recent
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63 version of mplayer to use it.