[mythtv-users] Setting up mythtv output on framebuffer

[Jarrod Gray]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, FeNiX wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to setup mythtv to use framebuffer instead XFree86 for TV output. I
> have G400 DH that has great support in DirectFB and i found out that mythtv
> supports DirectFB so I tried to set it up. I modified settings.pro so that
> mythtv use DirectFB insted X. Everything compiled ok. Then i tried to run
> mythfrontend and I got error message: "Cannot connect to X server" If I
> compiled it with DirectFB how come it still needs X? Bellow is a part from
> settings.pro.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> P.S. Is it better to use framebuffer than X on low systems? I think that X
> needs to much memory and time to boot. DirectFB seems like much faster.
>

Did you compile and link to Qt-Embedded? Did you run mythfrontend with the
"-qws" command line option?

I'm running Qt/Embedded over the framebuffer on the PVR-350 and everything
works perfectly.

Jarrod