[ydl-gen] Video modes on the PS3

[Warren Nagourney]

I am afraid that I was unsuccessful in installing two of the programs: 
emacs installed but wouldn't work (something about a color which wasn't 
installed) and "locate" wasn't found (how ironic). This is the first 
linux installation which I have ever seen without a working emacs. The 
yum configuration files weren't set up properly (after a half hour of 
googling, I figured it out). Something also not mentioned in the docs 
was the location of ps3videomode (in /sbin). Of course without locate, 
it was a little difficult to find. Again, is there a way to complete the 
installation from the DVD without spending a lot of time with RPMs?

Thanks.




-wn



David Seikel wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:54 -0800 Warren Nagourney
> <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have done some investigation of the various video modes on the PS3  
>> (in Linux) and find that one is not very badly compromised when
>> using a standard computer monitor.
>>
>> First, there are at least 3 VESA modes which are the same as
>> standard computer modes (at 60 Hz):
>>
>> Mode 11  -  1280x768
>> Mode 12  -  1280x1024
>> Mode 13  -  1920x1200
>>
>> I am considering trying numbers >13 to see what happens. After all,  
>> the RSX is a modified NVIDIA GPU and they probably support lots of  
>> modes in addition to the published ones. All I need is a working  
>> "ps3videomode" command - it was not installed with the standard YDL5  
>> installation (nor was "emacs", "locate" and a host of other nice  
>> commands - does anyone know an easy way to get them all without  
>> installing the RPMs individually?)
>>     
>
> Have you tried something like -
>
> yum install emacs locate ps3videomode
>
>   
>> These three modes work on my Samsung 940B (using the digital port)  
>> whose native resolution is 1440x900. I was blown away that the  
>> 1920x1200 worked, though the monitor put up a little message  
>> complaining about it. Of course, they were all scaled and looked
>> more or less fuzzy (actually the 1920x1200 was best, but I got a
>> headache from the fuzziness using it for any time). I believe that
>> using a DVI- VGA adaptor should allow the monitor to avoid scaling at
>> the expense of a small dark border (on modes 11 and 12).
>>
>> By the way, the Samsung monitor is HDCP compliant, but I find it
>> hard to believe that this matters for anything except (possibly)
>> playing a BlueRay movie. I am pretty sure it doesn't matter in Linux.
>>     
>
> Lack of HDCP on a DVI monitor may matter on Linux, even though it
> shouldn't.  I have heard that the PS3 wont even turn on the HDMI output
> unless the monitor it's plugged into is HDCP compliant.  If this is
> true, then a DVI to VGA adaptor wont help.  I'm going to be
> experimenting with this quite heavily over the next two weeks on a
> variety of monitors.  I'll let you know what I find.
>   
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