[ydl-gen] Questions on ydl-6.0 with ps3

[John Frankish]

At 04:07 25-07-08, you wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:14:43 +0400
>John Frankish <frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks - that's interesting, where did you find the full list
> > of ps3 video modes (eg #1547, #131) from?
> > The 2009W monitor I'm using can go up to 1680x1050 (WSXGA+?)
> > so there should be some scope to go better
> > than the 1160x644 I have now...
> >
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>what I did was try out different modes with the ps3-video-mode
>tool and then when it looked right used it with no options to
>get the actual mode number.
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>so for me it was:
>ps3-video-mode -c -v 11
>
>I had to use -c to get black looking right
>
>and then using it by itself got
>1547
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>###################################################
>[root at mideel ~]# ps3-video-mode -h
>ps3-video-mode (ps3-utils) 2
>
>Usage:
>   ps3-video-mode [options]
>
>Options:
>   --help,  -h          print this message
>   --video, -v <ID>     set video mode ID
>   --full,  -f          use full screen mode
>   --color, -c          use HDMI full range
>   --dither,-d          use dither ON mode
>
>Video mode ID:
>   0:auto mode
>   YUV 60Hz  1:480i  2:480p  3:720p  4:1080i  5:1080p
>   YUV 50Hz  6:576i  7:576p  8:720p  9:1080i 10:1080p
>   RGB 60Hz 33:480i 34:480p 35:720p 36:1080i 37:1080p
>   RGB 50Hz 38:576i 39:576p 40:720p 41:1080i 42:1080p
>   VESA     11:WXGA 12:SXGA 13:WUXGA
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>   full screen mode: <video mode ID> + 128
>   dither ON mode  : <video mode ID> + 2048
>
>Example:
>   ps3-video-mode -v 3 -f    720p 60Hz with full screen mode.
>   ps3-video-mode -v 131     Same as above.
>
>If no argument is given, displays the current video mode.
>Send bug reports to Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>.
>###############################################################
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>So very handy.
Thanks - played around with a lot of combinations and finally mode 5 
(1080p) seems to work best. My monitor doesn't support this 
resolution but scales it down to something that seems to be the best 
compromise between resolution and on-screen size of 
fonts/icons/windows. Weirdly, the default yellow dog wallpaper has 
shifted diagonally downwards to that the top corner (and the icons) 
is almost in the middle of the screen. When I created a new user the 
wallpaper is properly centred??



> > Yeah, I'm tempted to try fluxbox or jwm, but it's going to be
> > a lot of work...
> >
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>Not really.
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>yum install fluxbox
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>then set your .xinitrc as follows
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>#!/bin/sh
># Start the Fluxbox Window Manager
>exec /usr/bin/startfluxbox
>
>first thing you'll want to do is run fluxbox-generate-menu
>
>had been using fluxbox on the PS2 for years.
Thanks - I'm still torn between this and jwm...


>Ron Rogers Jr. (CronoCloud)
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