When mplayer plays a black window (or: Cinnamon leaking GPU memory)

The incident All of the sudden, playing videos with Mplayer opened a black window. Sometimes going fullscreen helped, sometimes it didn’t, sometimes with video playing but without OSD. ffplay worked, but somewhat limping. Setting: Linux Mint 19 on an x86_64, with a couple of fanless GeForce GT 1030 graphics cards and Cinnamon 3.8.9. Mplayer’s output [...]

Posted Under: cinnamon,Linux,Software
This post was written by eli on April 14, 2019 Comments (0)

Solved: Kintex-7 / KC705: MiG DDR3 fails to calibrate

As I implemented a MiG controller for KC705′s on-board SODIMM, the controller failed to calibrate at first. Despite that I’ve copied the instantiation and port connections from the example design. As for the pin placement, this was taken care of by the core itself, by virtue of memctl/memctl/user_design/constraints/memctl.xdc within MiG’s dedicated directory (which I called [...]

Posted Under: FPGA,Vivado
This post was written by eli on April 13, 2019 Comments (1)