On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Chirag wrote: mannan > Thanks, but I am not able to get te fullscreen mode. When I switch it mannan >on, the player mannan >takes the entire screen, but the movie itself is limited to the central part mannan >of the screen mannan >and is actually smaller than in the normal mode. The Readme file says
that is normal when you do not have a modeline low enough. what mpegtv (and other fullscreen apps do) is get the closest resolution that is possible(defined in XF86Config) for full screen mode. some games won't even run if there isn't a 640x480 modeline. see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9911/msg01229.html for the message about my modelines, and the ones that work on my monitor. they may NOT work on yours, but it may be worth a try. mannan >requires mannan >that an X server with DGA is required, What is this DGA? I am stuck with and mannan >odd mannan >card that does not properly get mode tuned with XFree86_SVGA. Since it mannan >supports mannan >VESA BIOS Extensioin 2.0 I am using Frame Buffer X Server XFree86_FBDev. mannan >with the kernel frame buffer device turned on using video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr mannan >kernel mannan >param(Ref /usr/src/linux/Documetation/framebuffer.txt). mannan >The problem with this is that it is unaccelerated. Still I am able to get mannan >comparable mannan >perfromance to playing in Windows. chances are it won't run in full screen then, DGA is sorta like XF86's version of DirectVideo(DirectX) it provides direct graphics access bypassing the network layer of the X server(I believe). mpegtv uses SDL to run fullscreen which inpart uses DGA. mannan >Another utillity which makes other OSes to run on Linux, VMWare for Linux mannan >also requires this DGA mannan >stuff. It also warned me that full screen mode is not possible since DGA is mannan >not in the X Server. what video chipset is on your videocard? mannan >If you have any info on this DGA please let me know it's good to have, but its not a very safe way to access the hardware, the system can crash very easily while using DGA(DGA2 may help fix some of this i dunno) but only the best XF86 drivers support it. i dont find fullscreen mode in vmware very useful unless i want to try to trick someone into thinking im running another OS:/ nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:06am up 194 days, 19:30, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.05, 1.13
