Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:57:13 -0300 From: "danieleff" <danieleff@uol.com.br> To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Matrox G450/G550 TV OUT (not available) Message-ID: <HHPQZD$IwgJey2n34tqCx79KqHRwNhv7MHzmpufrc@uol.com.br>
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Hi, I am quite happy at my matrox G450. The dualhead works like a charm both in multidisplay and clone modes. However, I can't seem to get TV out to work AT ALL. System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE (as of last friday) X: XFree86 4.3.0 from ports (as of last saturday) Video: Matrox G450 dualhead After a lot of research on the matrox forums and on google, I found out that neither the current XFree86 4.3.0 drivers and the Matrox mga 2.0 beta drivers support TV out for both the G450 and G550 series. * Matrox Linux Forum http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=2 * Matrox Forum Message from Matrox moderator stating that TV out is not supported for G450 http://forum.matrox.com/mgaforum/Forum2/HTML/002255.html If you have a G400, TV out works but you are out of luck with either G450 or G550. Further research showed that there are non-official solutions to this problem. These solutions are Linux based nonetheless. * TV-out on the G450 - lists the current available solutions for Linux http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/ * TV-out working on the G450 using Petr Vandrovec's matroxfb driver http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/linux/matrox-latest/ * DirectFB has TV-out code that works for the G400/G450/G550 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/directfb.txt Currently, Matrox shows no interest on supporting G450/G550 TV output. That's their official statement. Therefore, we either replace our cards or provide non-official solutions. I would prefer to try some solutions before buying another video card. I would be very much interested to know if anyone has been working on providing adhoc solutions for FreeBSD similar to the Linux ones? I would be more than willing to beta test those. Regards, ps: Please, CC: me on your replies since I am not subscribed to this mailing list. --- Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br
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