Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:07:51 -0800 From: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv newbie questions Message-ID: <20000315010751.B1131@grok.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20000314230108.A4692@ipass.net>; from Randall Hopper on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:01:08PM -0500 References: <20000311000826.A2673@grok.localnet> <20000314230108.A4692@ipass.net>
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:01:08PM -0500, Randall Hopper wrote: > |When I press the "full screen" button on the remote the image goes > |full-screen like it should. But when I press the button a second time > |the screen goes black. > Sounds like a bug in the X server for your card. > To remove fxtv from the loop, try the attached program. [snip] > Did you see a black screen after step #3? No black screen. Resolution changes as it should. The xsetvmode program you provided does help a bit... I've placed a "setvmode 640 480; setvmode 1280 960" command into the script I use to start fxtv (which also kills then restarts xscreensaver). I can now press the TVQuit() button on my remote and the setvmode commands get run and restores the screen properly. Before, I sometimes was left with a black screen until I did a CTRL-ALT-+/-. I've also noticed that unless I specify -geometry +0+0 (or put the window there manually) going full-screen the X viewport is sometimes not properly aligned with the TV window. That is, a few lines of pixels from my desktop are visible on the left side of the TV screen. Part of the fxtv controls (to the top of the volume bar) are also visible at the top, sometimes. When I press the full-screen button once the controls are partly visible. When I press it the third time and subsequently the controls are no longer visible (only the desktop pixels on the left are). However, if the TV window is on the bottom half of the screen, the partialy-visible controls don't go away no matter how many times I press the full-screen button. It seems odd that the top or bottom half of the screen would matter, but this (mis)behaviour is very consistant. The window also appears to get moved down some number of pixels. None of these things happen (except the blank screen on the 2nd/6th/10th etc. press of the full-screen button) when I specify -geometry +0+0, so that's what I'm doing unless/until a proper fix is found. My X server is 3.3.5 with Utah-GLX module (Matrox G200) and WindowMaker 0.61.1. My X header files are only 3.3.3.1 though... Might that make a difference? It hasn't been a problem before. > There's currently no "last channel viewed" feature. There is now. http://sea-to-sky.net/~sreid/fxtvpatch.txt > |This device should be able to play cable radio... Can it be done with > |Fxtv or is there some other program I should be using? > See xmradio in the ports collection. Also: > http://www.egd.igd.fhg.de/~runge/xmradio.html Thanks, works nicely. > There may be a way for an X app to disable the screen saver, but I'm > not familiar with it. Anyone? There's the "xset s off" command, so there must be some API call which xset is using. But I don't think that affects xscreensaver. This looks like a limitation of the xscreensaver package- I can't even see a way to change the timeout without restarting the xscreensaver server. Oh well, wrapper script it is then... #!/bin/sh xscreensaver-command -exit xset s off fxtv -geometry +0+0 xsetvmode 640 480 xsetvmode 1280 960 killall xscreensaver xscreensaver & xset s on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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