[mythtv-users] G400 Questions

[Matt]

Yes the G400 xv does work, you can verify X-video extensions with the 
"xvinfo" command.

Joe, I was curious how well your setup was working.  Did you come up 
with any tweaks that might be helpful to the rest of us?

Joe V wrote:

>Jason,
>
>I'm using a G400 right now.  I'm using the framebuffer
>method, and it's working well.
>
>I tried using the proprietary Matrox driver, but could
>never get it to work.  Powerdesk just didn't want to
>work for me in trying to configure the TV-out head,
>and I couldn't manually configure it.
>
>I would just setup the monitor to use the same
>resolution that you plan on using the TV-out.  I find
>that in my MythTV setup, the PC is near the TV (will
>be in the TV stand cabinet once I get an ATX desktop
>case), so I never have a monitor hooked up to it. 
>Luckily I never have any problems during bootup.  :)
>
>To work around the TV-out not being available during
>the boot sequence, I put the instructions to put the
>image on the second head in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>(RedHat 9), so I can at least see the part of the boot
>where daemons start loading.
>
>One other thing that I was never certain of - is Xv
>supported on the TV-out head with the Matrox
>proprietary driver?  It seems to be used on the
>framebuffer, which helps out with scaling immensely
>(otherwise scaling has to be done in software).
>
>-- Joe
>
>--- Jason White <axtools at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>1.  I'm a little unsure of whether or not to use the
>>Matrox beta driver, the
>>default linux driver with the mplayer framebuffer
>>hacks, or some combination
>>of the two.  In looking at the archives it seems
>>like a lot of people are
>>having success with the latter.  I've currently got
>>the beta driver
>>installed.  What's better (ie. what works!)?  I'm
>>able to see my desktop on
>>the TV out but currently I'm not sending duplicate
>>output to both cards.
>>
>>Which brings me to my next question
>>
>>2.  Is it possible to use the TV output just for my
>>mythTV display and use
>>the monitor output in a higher resolution mode?  Or
>>would I be better off to
>>just cut my losses and set the TV-out to duplicate
>>what's being displayed on
>>my monitor?
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