[mythtv-users] (Somewhat OT) EPIA Xv output too bright?

[Ivor Hewitt]

On Friday 27 February 2004 12:17, Mark Crutch wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my new EPIA M10000 board into decent working order.
> > I'm having a problem with the Xv output being artificially bright, and
> > the regular Xv controls have no effect. My FC1 + Custom Kernel setup is
> > unwatchably bright, while using Minimyth 0.4beta is merely annoyingly
> > bright. Some more details in my post at viaarena.com here:
>
> This sounds similar to a problem I had with an Epia M10K TV-out. In my
> case the washed out effect was present in X, not just through Xv output,
> and also had a slightly red tinge, making white appear as pink.
>
> I solved this by using older drivers. I can't remember which ones
> exactly, but ISTR that I used the clexf...37 drivers rather than the
> ...38 to get it to work. Regardless of numbers, try switching to an older
> version.
>
The newer drivers and the open source drivers set a bunch of chroma/luma 
offset flags. The earlier drivers didn't do this.

These settings are programmed using the the binary s3utility, uh utility, at 
the moment however, only the binary "libddmpeg.so" will actually pass these 
values through to the driver though since the code to do this hasn't been 
implemented in the open source driver.... and having never tested that bit 
of code I don't know if it will work anyway!

If you want the code fixed and this does turn out to be your problem I'd 
suggest doing so via the unichrome.sf.net project.

Ta,

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