I can only comment a bit on the G400 card... On 22/9/05 9:55 PM, "Simon Iremonger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, the properly wired up RGB adapter *does* work in e.g. > DirectFB, and the wiring/card design is such that the TV > 'senses' the card is in S-video mode or RGB mode appropriately. > (i.e. Either [Sync-on-video-pin, R, G, B] or > [Sync-with-mono-video, Colour, n/a, n/a]. It also connects the > "video dongle sense" such that the card can see the adapter is > connected. This is all wired to the SECOND head on the G400, > as I understand is how it should be. > > I have the PAL TV-output BIOS on the Card, but I've never suceeded > in getting the TV output to work at boot-time ;-(. > I appear to have a 32mb dual-head G400-tv-out (i.e. with the 'Maven' > chip).
Apart from me having the official S-Vid/Composite (using the composite output, I don't get to use the TV that has RGB in) this is similar to me -- I have it connected to the second head, can see the BIOS but not Linux booting. I believe this is due to the initialisation of the kernel which switches off the TV support until you reactivate it -- I have it set up with a custom modeline and it gets activated at the end of the boot sequence. You could probably patch the kernel to do this/not do this earlier on, but I've never bothered. > I notice options on switching video mode in the mythtv setup menus. > Does this actually work for anybody, so the X server display > switches to different modes according to the video being played? > Or is this not sensible?? If you're running on a standard TV (not high-definition) I wouldn't bother resolution-switching. > > You may see, I've been having a whole host of problems to solve... > Mostly related to display with the TV-output! > The best G400 support is in DirectFB, but mythtv in DirectFB > doesn't seem to be a particuarly viable solution! > I don't know if you can enable RGB TV on G400 in X.org X11 ??... You should be able to use the RGB TV modes in X11 -- at worst if you have the console working you should be able to have a line Option "UseFBDev" "on" In your xf86.conf/xorg.conf file. You can download a binary driver from Matrox which is still being maintained (www.matrox.com, choose Matrox Graphics -> Home and Entertainment -> Support -> Drivers -> Latest Drivers) Joshua King Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
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