[mythtv-users] G400 and TV Out - about to give up

[Rob Comstock]

Here is mine:

Did you go thru all the framebuffer config stuff? Works for my NTSC TV.

Rob


# XFree86 4.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "NoPM" "true"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

# By default, Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use xfs

Section "Files"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

# Module loading section

Section "Module"
Load  "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load  "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load  "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load  "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load  "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load  "v4l" # Video4Linux
# Load  "pex5" # PHIGS for X 3D environment (obsolete)
# Load  "record" # X event recorder
# Load  "xie" # X Image Extension (obsolete)
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load  "freetype" # TrueType font handler
# Load  "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver      "keyboard"
Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Sony CPD-1302"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName  "Unknown"
Gamma      1.5
HorizSync 15.5-24.0
VertRefresh 30.0-100.0
        DisplaySize 180 130
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox Millennium G400"
Driver "mga"
BoardName "Unknown"
        Option    "hw cursor" "off" 
        Option    "UseFBDev" "on" 
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Linux Frame Buffer"
Driver "fbdev"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Matrox Millennium G400"
Monitor    "Sony CPD-1302"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" 
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alberto Grazi 
  To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org 
  Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:18 AM
  Subject: [mythtv-users] G400 and TV Out - about to give up



  Hi guys, 
  it's only after spending endless hours on this problem that I'm back to the list asking for advices... I don't really know what to do now. 

  Very quickly, I've configured every possible setting using the various howtos from this list and from other sources but "no luck" (TM). 
  My G400 doesn't have anything connected to the first head and the second head is plugged into my TV with a S-video cable. 

  Text mode works pretty well (although only b&w) but, as soon as I start X the picture is completely scrambled on the screen (oh well, it looks familiar but it's nothing close to something viewable). By looking at the logs, the X server is ignoring my modelines claiming they're out of range. This is happening after a failure to detect DDC information from the monitor (well, after all it's not connected). 

  Has anyone seen this before? If I can't get it to work, I'll have to give up and spend £60 to get my XBOX chipped and use it as a front-end (but I don't really want to if I can avoid it). 

  BTW, can someone send me a copy of their XF86config (just for reference) for the G400 with TV-Out for PAL? And, as a reference, I'm on an up2date gentoo installation. 

  Thanks in advance! 
  Alberto 

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