[mythtv-users] TV-Out with Matrox Marvel G400-TV

[Ray Olszewski]

I cannot be quite certain from what you write, but it appears that you are 
using either the standard X driver or the Open Source alternative to it 
(the one from http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/g450_tvout_howto.html). If 
so, your problem is most likely the wrong choice of X server.

For this card, I believe you want to be using the proprietary X driver that 
Matrox released. For information and download, go to this URL:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_21.cfm

BTW, the MythTV HowTo does not mention your card as working with Myth. From 
the information at the Matrox site, I'd guess it will work just fine, and 
it is not in the HowTo only because the list has not received any reports 
from anyone who uses it. So if you do get it to work, you might post a 
followup mentioning how, so the info can be added to the HowTo.

Apologies if I have misread your description.

At 08:07 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, Wayne Veilleux wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to use my Marvel G400-TV using the TV-out with MythTV.
>My Marvel G400-TV have one svga connector for my monitor and
>another connector for the external Rainbow Runner Studio Video
>Capture card where I connected my TV using the RCA video output.
>
>I compiled and install the latest mgavideo-0.1.1b.
>
>I got almost everyting work because I can use xawtv and see it on
>my TV using the RCA TV-out on the Marvel external box. My problem is
>around the framebuffer to send my X session to the TV-out. I read
>some howto that I catched on the net without any success. Could
>someone could help me and please tell me how to do that ? I have
>compiled the matroxset apps and after loading ;
>
>modprobe i2c-matroxfb
>modprobe matroxfb_maven
>modprobe matroxfb_crtc2
>
>I still don't have
>
>I'm using Mandrake 9.1 with tha latest kernel update to
>2.4.21-0.18mdk.
>
>Thanks for any help