Fullscreen MOL question

erik yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Feb 13 14:07:01 2004


James,

This is the molrc.video file that works fine for me. I add some 
suggestion to your molrc.video. I hope it helps. Disable everythng that 
deals with mol running under X and I think it will run fine. My ydl and 
macosx  are under fn-ctrl-option-f7 and fn-ctrl-option-f8.

With friendly regards,


Erik de Wild

# -*- perl -*- (for emacs syntax coloring)
#
# Mac-on-Linux video configuration
#


# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Startup Resolution (this is used as a hint only)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#   

resolution:        640/480/75    # width/height/Hz
depth:            32         


# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# X11 Settings
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#    Some config options:
#
#        xdisplay:        remote.host:0.0
#        use_backing_store:    yes/no
#
#    Backing store is primarily useful if the X-connection is remote.
#    Note: X11-video is not as fast as full-screen video.

enable_xvideo:   no       
#yes


# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Fullscreen (Console/fbdev) Settings
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#    The tool 'molvconfig' is used to configure the fullscreen mode.
#
#    Some config options:
#
#        vt:        9        # VT-number to use
#        gamma:    1.0        # gamma (parameter between 0.1 and 1.0)
#        gamma:    1.0 1.0 1.0    # gamma (r,g,b)
#
#    Ctrl-Cmd-Space switches back to the orignal VT

enable_console_video:    yes
#no

start_on_console:    yes        # switch to console initially
#no
autoswitch_console:    yes        # allow automatic switching to console
#no
#fb_modes:        /etc/fb.modes    # extra video modes for molvconfig


# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# XDGA (X11 fullscreen) Settings
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#    At startup, all available XDGA modes are listed. Unfortunately,
#    some of the modes might be broken (depending on the video card
#    and the XFree86 version).
#
#    By default, MOL uses just a single mode with high
#    probability of working. However, it is possible to manually
#    specify multiple modes. For instance
#
#        xdga_modes:        3 5 9       
#
#    instructs MOL to use mode 3, 5 and 9.
#
#    Cntrl-Cmd-Space leaves XDGA mode and switches back to X

enable_xdga_video:    no


# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# VNC Settings
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#    For VNC information, visit http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
#

enable_vncvideo:    no    # Enable the VNC server
vnc_port:          5900    # port to use for VNC

******************************************
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james T wrote:

> Hi ya'll,
> I'm having this problem on a gentoo box, but I do have 2 machines 
> running YDL, and I figured I might find better MOL config help here (=
>
> I'm having trouble getting MOL to start fullscreen.
> From within a KDE terminal if I startmol -X, OSX starts fine in a 
> window. But after it launches, if I hit Ctrl-Cmd-F9, I'm just left 
> with a black terminal with a cursor in the upper left corner, and I 
> can't seem to interact with it in any way, other than to hit 
> Ctrl-Cmd-F7 to get back to Xwindows where MOL is still running in a 
> window.
> I have run, as root, molvconfig and tested all available modes and 
> passed pretty much all of them, it then reported writing that to a 
> file. The problem tho is that if I try to startmol -X from a text 
> terminal, it complains that no video modes were found, and that it 
> can't connect to X (not surprising since I'm running it outside of X). 
> In any case I can't seem to get it to see any of the modes that were 
> tested with molvconfig. or perhaps I'm missing something else 
> completely. Anyway, any help in which direction to look would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm running 2.4.24-benh0 kernel, and MOL 0.9.70-rc2 on a sawtooth G4 
> 450. I know the MOL version is newer than the one available in the  
> yum repository so I understand that people may not be using this 
> version, and that could be the problem, but I'm still thinking this is 
> a just a config issue, as it run fine in a window.
>
> I'll post my molrc.video and the text output of startmol below.
> thanks in advance for any help,
> -James
>
> here is molrc.video
>  # -*- perl -*- (for emacs syntax coloring)
>  #
>  # Mac-on-Linux video configuration
>  #
>
>
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # Startup Resolution (this is used as a hint only)
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #   
>
>  resolution:      1280/1024/85   # width/height/Hz
>  depth:         32      
>
>
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # X11 Settings
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #
>  #   Some config options:
>  #
>  #      xdisplay:      remote.host:0.0
>  #      use_backing_store:   yes/no
>  #
>  #   Backing store is primarily useful if the X-connection is remote.
>  #   Note: X11-video is not as fast as full-screen video.
>
>  enable_xvideo:      yes  >>> this should be no
>
>
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # Fullscreen (Console/fbdev) Settings
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #
>  #       The tool 'molvconfig' is used to configure the fullscreen mode.
>  #
>  #       Some config options:
>  #
>  #           vt:         9               # VT-number to use
>  #           gamma:      1.0             # gamma (parameter between 
> 0.1 and 1.0)
>  #           gamma:      1.0 1.0 1.0     # gamma (r,g,b)
>  #
>  #       Ctrl-Cmd-Space switches back to the orignal VT
>
>  enable_console_video:   yes
>
>  start_on_console:       yes             # switch to console initially
>  autoswitch_console:     no              # allow automatic switching 
> to console
>
>  fb_modes:               /etc/fb.modes     # extra video modes for 
> molvconfig
>
>
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # XDGA (X11 fullscreen) Settings
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #
>  #   At startup, all available XDGA modes are listed. Unfortunately,
>  #   some of the modes might be broken (depending on the video card
>  #   and the XFree86 version).
>  #
>  #   By default, MOL uses just a single mode with high
>  #   probability of working. However, it is possible to manually
>  #   specify multiple modes. For instance
>  #
>  #       xdga_modes:      3 5 9      
>  #
>  #   instructs MOL to use mode 3, 5 and 9.
>  #
>  #   Cntrl-Cmd-Space leaves XDGA mode and switches back to X
>
>  enable_xdga_video:   yes  >> I think this should be no
>
>
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  # VNC Settings
>  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  #
>  #   For VNC information, visit http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>  #
>
>  enable_vncvideo:   no   # Enable the VNC server
>  vnc_port:        5900   # port to use for VNC
>
> ============================
> here is the output of startmol under a text terminal:
>
> Could not connect to X server
>  Video Driver(s)
>  No video modes at all was found-exiting
>  cleaning up threads..
>  DONE
>
>
> ============================
> here is the output of startmol under kde
>
>  bash-2.05b$ startmol -X
>  Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70-rc2-gentoo -gentoo  [Feb 11 2004 21:50]
>  Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
>  Starting MOL session 1
>  Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 128 MB RAM
>  Timebase: 24.90 MHz, Bus: 99.63 MHz, Clock: 450 MHz
>  Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
>  OHCI USB controller registered
>  Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
>  Video driver(s): [xvideo]
>
>       640* 480, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>       800* 600, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      1024* 768, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      1152* 864, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      1280*1024, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      1600*1200, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>
>  Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl2
>  Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
>  All rights reserved.
>  For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>  Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
>  Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
>  Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
>  Listening on LPF/tun1/00:ff:e8:d1:ae:53/192.168.41.0/24
>  Sending on   LPF/tun1/00:ff:e8:d1:ae:53/192.168.41.0/24
>  Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
>  Ethernet Interface 'tun-<tun1>' @ 00:00:0D:EA:DB:EE
>  OSS sound device unavailable (will be used anyway)
>  OSS sound driver
>  MOL SCSI controller registered
>
>
>      <No SCSI Devices>
>
>      CD   /dev/cdrom       CD-ROM         <read-only>   ------
>  ----> /dev/hda2 might be a boot-strap partition.
>  No volumes found in '/dev/hda'
>      HFS+ /dev/hdb10       MacHD          <rw> 19412 MB
>  No volumes found in '/dev/sda'
>  No volumes found in '/dev/sdb'
>
>
>  >> ==================================================
>  >> MacOS X Boot Loader 1.1.18
>  >> Candidate boot volume: /mol-blk@0/disk@0:0
>  >> /mol-blk@0/disk@0:0,\mach_kernel (3824080 bytes)
>  >> /mol-blk@0/disk@0:0,\System\Library\Extensions.mkext
>  >> ==================================================
>
>  <*> Block Driver v1.1
>  <*> Ethernet driver 1.1
>  <*> MolAudio 1.2
>  <*> MolEnet: Link up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex
>  + Video Driver v1.12
>
>  Signal INT
>  One more to kill emulator
>  cleaning up...
>  Terminating threads...
>  DONE
>
>
>
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