[mythtv] Matrox G200 TV out works! HOWTO!

[John]

Hi all,

Well, I've just ordered myself a G200 (16mb AGP) and am ready to take the
MythTV plunge!  It will be a dedicated MythTV system.  I have read the G200
How-To (several times) and the additions to it.  Here's the problem...

I'm a very experienced s/w developer, but it's all in Windows (and DOS
device drivers if that counts for anything ;-).  I have a boxed copy of SuSE
8.0 Personal here next to me and a PIII-800, 512mb RAM, 80gb ready to use.
The problem is that I don't know what the best version of Linux is for my
G200 setup?  Isaac uses Debian Unstable, Ray (below) has a RH 8 RPM but
that's just the kernels (not sure how close that gets me?), and other
threads say Gentoo is fastest.  Ideally, I'd download an ISO image, burn it,
and install the new system from that, but I know that's asking waaaay to
much.  So, what's the simplest way to get this new system up-and-running?
I've only installed Linux twice and both times from "pre-packaged" installs.
HD formats and cmd lines don't scare me.  Docs that "assume" a lot do. ;-)

If I downloaded the Debian image Isaac points us to and installed it, it
wouldn't have the support for the G200 built-in right?  Is it an easy add
then or do you almost start over to add that?

I'm willing to learn and contribute code (lots of C++ experience).  Would I
be best off going for the CVS setup?

Thanks VERY much!
John

P.S. One other note... Apparently h/w MJPEG support for the G200 was added
after .7 so does this mean CVS is the way to go?  Or, should I do .7 and
when .8 comes out in the next few weeks (any guesses here?), I'll just see a
big improvement?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Johnson" <bjohnson+sender+e33745@symetrix.com>
To: <mythtv-dev@snowman.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Matrox G200 TV out works! HOWTO!


> Actually, I got it working today....  I had *thought* my matroxfb_maven
> driver was being loaded, but it wasn't (something funky in my
modules.conf).
> If I load that by hand, then the instructions work as advertised.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Is anyone interested in the kernels that I've built for this in rpm format
> for redhat 8 (based on the redhat 2.4.18-18.8.0 kernel)???  It sure makes
> for an easy install :)  It should give fb support to any G200/G400.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray" <maillists@sonictech.net>
> To: <mythtv-dev@snowman.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Matrox G200 TV out works! HOWTO!
>
>
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:00:54AM -0700, Bernard Johnson wrote:
> > > I have a Matrox Marvel G400-TV (from what I read, it should work the
> same as
> > > what you are performing below).  However, when I execute the two
> matroxset
> > > commands, I get:
> > >
> > > root@localhost# matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -m 3
> > > ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> > > root@localhost# matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -o 1 2
> > > ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > "matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -m 1", however, works fine.
> >
> > Try doing this before loading the marvel capture drivers/modules.
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