On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:48:35PM +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:28:17PM +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >Been trying to get the TV-out working from a Matrox G400 DualHead MAX card > >but all I get is a corrupted screen. > > > >I've got two Matrox cables, one for a G400 and one for a G550. The G400 > >cable has a Mini DIN7 connector and a composite connector. The G550 has a > >Mini DIN4 connector. Please tell me if I've got this correct. > > > >In ~/.directfbrc is > >log-file=/var/log/directfb-mplayer.log > >matrox-crtc2 > >matrox-tv-standard=pal > >matrox-cable-type=composite > > > >Running > >mplayer test.avi -vo dfbmga -ao oss -fs > >I get the picture on the monitor and not the tv, I don't think that is what > >should happen. > > You probably have the TV-out adapter connected to the wrong connector. > > -- > Ville Syrjälä > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ > > Resolved, took the card out and put it back in again, which may have > helped. I seemed to be correctly inserted before. > > Also stopped the loaded the modules loading at boot time and modprobe'd > them later but I wouldn't think that makes any difference. > > Been reading matrox framebuffer howto and it should be possible to use > matrox set to display a console on the TV. But I'm not sure which are the > correct commands.
If you do that you can't use DirectFB's TV-out support. > Last problem is to try to find out why any of the directfb command don't > exit. df_neo and df_dok run just fine, and not directfb but I have to > reboot to reset the framebuffer. It just has the final frame displayed. I recommend building matroxfb and fbcon into the kernel instead of using modules. I've never had any console problems with that config. -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
