[mythtv-users] G400, Maven, and TVout through the framebuffer chip

Steven Gill steven.gill at verizon.net
Thu Feb 6 13:21:01 UTC 2003


Erik,

I had an ioctl problem when using -m 3 on my G200 card.  I was able to
solve this problem by loading i2c-matroxfb and matroxfb-maven before
loading the mgavideo set of drivers.  I suppose since you have a G400
that you may also need to load the matroxfb-crtc2 module also, so I
would do this before the mgavideo drivers too.  Let me know how you make
out.

Steve

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 18:10, Erik Bernhardson wrote:
> Hello, I have a G400 DH, and i'm trying to run the
> frambuffer stuff to make it output to the TV.  Output
> does work in X, but i would prefer to get it working
> through the framebuffer.
> 
> Basically my problem has been that output onto the TV
> just plain fails.  i can do 'matroxset -f /dev/fb1 -m
> 0' to disconnect it, but matroxset -f /dev/fb0 -m 3'
> fails with ioctl failed.
> 
> I have been having the wierdest problems, but after
> looking through my settings it seems to come down to
> the Maven chip wasn't being found.  Everything is
> compiled into the kernel, I2C, bit-banging, and all
> the g400 stuff.
> Here is everything from dmesg relating to the g400:
> 
> i2c-core.o: i2c core module
> i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered.
> i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
> i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825)
> matroxfb: Matrox G400 (AGP) detected
> matroxfb: MTRR's turned on
> matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26208)
> matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xE0000000, mapped to
> 0xd0812000, size 33554432
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb0: MATROX VGA frame buffer device
> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory:
> 203M
> agpgart: Detected AMD Irongate chipset
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
> [drm] AGP 0.99 on AMD Irongate @ 0xd8000000 64MB
> [drm] Initialized mga 3.0.2 20010321 on minor 0
> i2c-dev.o: Registered 'DDC:fb0 #0 on i2c-matroxfb' as
> minor 1
> i2c-core.o: adapter DDC:fb0 #0 on i2c-matroxfb
> registered as adapter 1.
> i2c-dev.o: Registered 'DDC:fb0 #1 on i2c-matroxfb' as
> minor 2
> i2c-core.o: adapter DDC:fb0 #1 on i2c-matroxfb
> registered as adapter 2.
> i2c-dev.o: Registered 'MAVEN:fb0 on i2c-matroxfb' as
> minor 3
> i2c-core.o: adapter MAVEN:fb0 on i2c-matroxfb
> registered as adapter 3.
> i2c-core.o: driver maven registered.
> matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered
> as fb1
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem, i
> am using kernel 2.4.18-xfs-1.1.  Also, does anyone
> know which version of the 2.5.x kernels has a
> compilable matroxfb?  2.5.59 didn't want to compile,
> but i noticed the drivers have changed, although it
> seems like it might just be a cleanup.  I was hoping
> maybee the new code would work though.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, or if anyone needs more
> information to try and figure this out.
> 
> Erik
> 
> 
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