[mythtv-users] G400 Questions

[Joe V]

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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