vdr-plugin-softdevice package for debian?

[Tobias Grimm]

Martin Wache wrote:

> is missing in the output. So probably the softdevice is not the 
> primary device in your setup. Do you have any FF-cards in your box and 
> if yes, did you set the primary device to the last device?


I have one FF  and one budget card and set PrimaryDVB=2. I will change 
this and see what happens.

> That is strange, ATI cards usually have Directcolor FBs and sofdevice 
> reports to have found a Truecolor FB. I guess the card is a Mach64?


Yes.

> What does fbset -i tell? Did you try to use a 15 bit mode? In this 
> mode my Mach64 card works.


I couldn't set it to 15 bit yet. Can you send me your settings please?

> Unfortunatly Mach64 cards are not very well supported by DirectFB and 
> X (I think you will need an Xserver from the gatos project to get Xv). 
> My card runs reliably only with Vidix (which doesn't seem to be 
> included in Debian at all, an is not well maintained in the 
> softdevice) and very slow in plain fb-mode.
> Do you have by chance a different graphics card available?


I could test it on my notebook with an ati rage 128, but with a little 
bit of luck, I will find another old card somewhere.

Tobias