On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:55:42AM +0000, Duncan Webb wrote: > Ville Syrjälä wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:48:35PM +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:28:17PM +0200, Duncan Webb wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>Been trying to get the TV-out working from a Matrox G400 DualHead MAX > >>>card > >>>but all I get is a corrupted screen. > >>> > >>>I've got two Matrox cables, one for a G400 and one for a G550. The G400 > >>>cable has a Mini DIN7 connector and a composite connector. The G550 has a > >>>Mini DIN4 connector. Please tell me if I've got this correct. > >>> > >>>In ~/.directfbrc is > >>>log-file=/var/log/directfb-mplayer.log > >>>matrox-crtc2 > >>>matrox-tv-standard=pal > >>>matrox-cable-type=composite > >>> > >>>Running > >>>mplayer test.avi -vo dfbmga -ao oss -fs > >>>I get the picture on the monitor and not the tv, I don't think that is > >>>what > >>>should happen. > >>> > >>> > >>You probably have the TV-out adapter connected to the wrong connector. > >> > >>-- > >>Ville Syrjälä > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ > >> > >>Resolved, took the card out and put it back in again, which may have > >>helped. I seemed to be correctly inserted before. > >> > >>Also stopped the loaded the modules loading at boot time and modprobe'd > >>them later but I wouldn't think that makes any difference. > >> > >>Been reading matrox framebuffer howto and it should be possible to use > >>matrox set to display a console on the TV. But I'm not sure which are the > >>correct commands. > >> > >> > > > >If you do that you can't use DirectFB's TV-out support. > > > I think that the problem was not applying the > matroxfb-full-memory-linux-2.6.6.patch.bz2 patch. > > >Last problem is to try to find out why any of the directfb command don't > >exit. df_neo and df_dok run just fine, and not directfb but I have to > >reboot to reset the framebuffer. It just has the final frame displayed. > > > > > > > >I recommend building matroxfb and fbcon into the kernel instead of using > >modules. I've never had any console problems with that config. > > > Rebuilding the kernel with the patches fusion-full-linux-2.6.9.patch.bz2 > and matroxfb-full-memory-linux-2.6.6.patch.bz2 has resolved the problem > trying to exit the directfb apps. So one of the gentoo patches seems to > break directfb. > > However the tv out doesn't seem to work, with the same set-up and > cabling as before., strange. > > Is there a step by step approach to testing the tv-out? > > That's why I was asking about the matroxset commands.
matroxset is not related to DirectFB's TV-out support. However if you want to try matroxfb's TV-out support google should be able to find some guides. -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
