> ERROR: tty is not a linux console. You can not start this > tool from a pseudo tty (xterm/ssh/screen/...). > I want the keyboard input for the fbtv to come from the xterm. Can I > not do this? Is there a technical reason or was the above just put > into place to stop the "unaware"? fbtv expects the tty being really a linux console and this is needed for console switch handling (i.e. turn off the video if you switch to another vt, ...). > Also, on my system, /dev/fb0 is a Matrox G400 with the CRTCs swapped > so that fb0 is the TV-Out port with the BES rerouted to it. It does > not seem to be scaling the output to my 800x600 framebuffer. I've never tested fbtv on a dual-head matrox. Why don't you setup X11 multiheaded and run xawtv on the second screen? I'd expect that works better. Gerd -- #include </dev/tty>
