[MPlayer-users] Re: fbset 50hz pal

[Adam Nielsen]

> It doesn't work. Am I on the right way ?
> Please help me, I'm close to give up.

Google for "gtf.c", download it, compile it ("gcc -o gtf gtf.c" should do it) 
then run ./gtf for help.  It can generate modelines for you, for both X11 and 
fbdev.  You'll probably want to run something like this for a PAL framebuffer 
mode:

./gtf 720 576 50 -f

Which for me generates: (with some small modification)

mode "pal"
    # PCLK: 26.57 MHz, H: 29.65 kHz, V: 50.00 Hz
    geometry 720 576 720 576 32
    timings 37641 88 24 13 1 64 3
    hsync low
    vsync high
endmode

You might also want to try interlaced, but that requires some modifications to 
the source.  I've done those modifications (badly, but you might want to try 
them anyway ;-))

mode "pal-i"
    # PCLK: 27.37 MHz, H: 30.55 kHz, V: 50.00 Hz
    geometry 720 288 720 288 32
    timings 36532 88 24 13 1 64 3
    hsync low
    vsync high
endmode

No idea how well or how badly that will work though.  The first one is 
probably your best bet.

Cheers,
Adam.