On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:34:33 -0500, Ryan Underwood
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> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
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> > I can help with the DVI stuff.  I have a G550.
> 
> What's the port configuration on it?  I have a nagging curiosity that
> the G450 may be able to swap the DAC<->connector mapping like the G550
> can.  But it only seems that this swap would happen if:

It's got a DVI port and a vga port and you can swap the port to crtc mapping.

> 
> - you have a card with a DVI and an analog output
> - you ignore the DVI connector and put an analog monitor on the analog
>     connector.

if you only have one head connected, that port gets crtc1.

> 
> Not a common scenario.  I know a lot of G550's come with a DVI and an
> analog connector, but I've never seen a G450 like that.  (The G450
> manual claims that they exist., however.)
> 
> Anyway, if I can find someone with a G450 with that configuration, and
> your G550 has the same, then we could verify that the two chips do both
> indeed have the capability to swap DACs.  G400-DH definitely does not,
> because the Maven chip's DAC is hardwired to the second port.
> 
> The fact that you can change both the CRTC<->DAC mapping and the
> DAC<->connector mappings is a little confusing to say the least but I
> think I've got a handle on it.
> 
> Something else I'm curious about is hooking up two DVI monitors to a
> G450 or G550 using a dual DVI cable.  I guess in that case the DacG and
> MGA-TVO are ignored completely, so do these cards have two TMDS
> transmitters (one for each monitor on the cable)?  Or are the TMDS
> chips internal to the dual digital cables?

Is that even possible?  I though matrox sold a special version of tha
card with 2 dvi ports in order to do that.  As far as I recall, the
g550 only had 1 integrated tmds transmitter.  the cards with 2 dvi
ports probably had an external transmitter for the second port.

Alex

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