On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:57:34AM +0200, TheNop wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:25:20AM +0200, TheNop wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > today I tested the G450 with matroxfb.
> > > I saw that the tv out has a line flicker.
> > > This is the same as on the G400.
> > > 
> > > But using matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -e don't let me change the flicker mode 
> > > on the G450.
> > > On G400 I can use one of three flicker modes.
> > > Is this feature not supported on G450?
> > > How can I reduse the flicker on the G450?
> > 
> > You can't. The Windows drivers do have a flicker filter setting but it 
> > doesn't actually do anything to the TV encoder :( It may be that they do 
> > some tricks with the texture unit since that is what they must be using to
> > scale the image.
> > 
> > I've tried G450/G550 TV-out via matroxfb a few times but the image has 
> > been absolutely horrible. It looks like they've chosen really bad default 
> > brightness, contrast etc. settings. Also the image doesn't look very 
> > stable on my TV. The console text seems to flutter around a bit. Do you 
> > get a decent picture out of it?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ville Syrj�l�
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/
> > 
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> I get a real decent tv out picture with the G450, when I increase the
> brigthness and contrast and decreases the saturation a bit.

Ok the defaults are simply bad then. I've never played with it long enough 
to actually adjust them :)

> The image quality is much better than with my G400 (I have a G400MAX and a
> normel G400).
> 
> The only thing is the line flicker.
> 
> The main problem of the two G400 are:
> 1) unsharp 

Do you mean the TV-out or CRT picture?

> 2) no homogen image illumination. two big dark vertical strips. Looks like a
> analog problem. I see the problem on both g400 under linux and windows and
> also on different mainboars.

I get moving horizontal strips on all cards. I suspect my long composite 
cable may have something to do with it as I don't remeber seeing them when 
I tried a short SCART RGB cable. My plan is to build a long RGB SCART 
cable out of cat5 STP.

-- 
Ville Syrj�l�
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/


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