[mythtv] Matrox G450 Tv-Out?

[Brian Foddy]

I think I went through all the same steps.  I had heard the combo
of Matrox and TVout in Linux was "good".  So I bought a 450 dualhead on 
Ebay only to find out that Matrox apparently stopped TV out support in
Linux with the 400.  So trying the same frame buffer steps you just
mention, I too got TV out working.  But I found the picture quality
very poor, and mythtv failed with no XV support.  

I finally gave up and just ordered a signal converter, I hope to
get it next week.  In the mean time, a different computer had a
Nvidia card with tvout and it worked fine.

So I don't think I can definately put you out of your misery, but
at least I'll had you the gun I used :)

Brian

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, jasonmiller wrote:

> Has anyone managed to get MythTV working with a Matrox G450? After a
> ridiculous amount of Googling and searching the MythTV list archives I can
> get TV out working fine in X. I can get the desktop on the tv using the
> fbdev drivers and xawtv displays video fine. I can't, however, manage to get
> MythTV to run on the TV.  It complains that it can't find xv.  I've seen a
> bunch of posts about the G450 vs. G400 but I can't seem to find anything
> definitive enough to make me give up completely. Of course, my frustration
> level is so high now that that may do that anyway :)  Someone please either
> enlighten me or put me out of my misery so I can go swap in an old Geforce 2
> I have laying around!
> 
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