[ltp] T23 with external TFT display and video

[Johnny Casey]

Ted Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to play divx and mpeg movies (using xine, mplayer, kaboodle) 
> with an 1280x1024 external TFT connected to the T23 at startup but all I 
> get in the movie window is a blue area. Sound works fine. If I switch to 
> the 1024x768 built-in TFT, movies works fine. I am using MDK9.2 with the 
> supplied savage 1.1.27 driver (no need to replace it anymore!).

I have a TP 600 running debian testing/unstable.  YMMV.

The blue area is probably due to the use of XV as opposed to XSHM.  XV 
is better but requires enough graphics memory to work properly.  A 
symptom is that the audio plays but the screen doesn't show anything. 
Since at the lower resolution (1024x768) the display seems to work, I 
would guess that you don't have enough video memory to run XV at 1280x1024.

You could try seeing if you can use XSHM instead of XV.
'xine -V xshm <blahblah.mpg>' versus 'xine -V xv <blahblah.mpg>'.  Note 
that the xine setting doesn't take effect until the program is restarted.

For instance, I can play XVid movies 320x240, but not 640x480, using XV 
using xine.

> Is there e.g. something in the XF68Config-4 that is not correctly set, 
> or what can be causing the problem?

Not enough video memory...

> /Ted

Cheers,
Johnny