On Wednesday 25 May 2005 17:35, you wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:39 +0200, ewi news wrote:When I start Wine (for DC++) or planetpenguin-racer, then I just get a blank screen (but i can restart kdm on tty1, so not a complete crash)Do those applications switch to a different video mode? If so, can you exit from them blindly (in ppracer, just hit the Escape key repeatedly) and return to the desktop?
DC++ does not switch the video mode; it is a 'normal' windowed Windows program just using the standard windows controls. I solved my problem by just running fglrxconfig. After several trial and error attempts it finally created a XF86config that is finally as I want it: Wine is now running (even with Option "UseFastTLS" "0"). I don't have a clue why. fglrxconfig said something about problems with winex and "UseFastTLS" "0" or "1". It seems to me that the normal Wine is running OK with "UseFastTLS" "0". And: Tvout IS WORKING. I made a dualhead setup with PAL-B and it is working; in colour! I get a videooverlay (i.e. Kaffeine finally shows a picture) and Sound is working. Before I tried: Single Head: no tvout Clone Mode: No overlay Laptop Mode: no Tvout at all Big Screen: Since KDE doesn't know about it (as in Xinerama) it is really just one big screen starting on my monitor and continuing on the tv. Not acceptable... Dualhead: My first try with dual head didn't work; the tvout was there but just in black/white. I don't remember what I did different at the second time. Drawback of dualhead: about 20 MB higher ram usage compared to the Xfree radeon driver (compared with free) because you get a second completly different configured KDE desktop on the TVout (so you see I'm using KDE). So some parts of KDE are started twice. As a result you also get a desktop1 folder in your home directory. I'm still a newbie to linux so I don't really know how and why I get this second independent KDE desktop on TVout, but you will know... Just to give feedback that Tvout can work... Thank you very much for your help... P.S.: But to be honest: The quality is not the same as in windows. I can't get it to use the full TV screen (overscan) and it is much more blurry compared to windows... Perhaps I can do something about that later...