fbtv and framebuffer setup, any suggestions?

[uzik]

Hey all,

I'm playing with framebuffer to see if I can get decent video performance.

I've got vesafb installed and can boot into a graphic 1024x768 screen
mode. It creates /dev/fb0 when I do. I think it's working since I could
start the X server using startxdbfb

Whenever I start fbtv ( xawtv works under X/kde ) I get sound
but no picture. The monitor clicks like it's changing modes and
the powers the standby light comes on as if the video signal
was missing. I can change channels and quit the application.

I cannot get the screen back into a sane mode so I have to reboot.
I tried typing reset and 'fbset default' but neither will set the screen
mode. ( is there a command to do this? startx maybe? )

I've got an ati rage 3d video card and an ati wonder tv tuner card.

I set /etc/fb.modes to the output from
fbset -i
and there's only 1 mode not commented out in the file now.

Any suggestions?

[Nuwen]

Sounds like it's trying to switch to a video mode it can't really handle or something. All I can think of is to look carefully through 'man fbtv', especially the '-s' option sounds like it'd eliminate the mode change, and '-m' might help if that was the problem.

[uzik]

Thanks. I'll give it a try. I did try -m but with no results.