Re: [Freevo-users] Question to the Matrox owners out there

[Ole Andre Schistad]

Well I now have a G450 card but guess what; according to a techie 
posting on the Matrox forums (what a wonderful way to find out what your 
card supports? not...) the G450 does NOT support TV out in so-called DOS 
mode. A certain rock band was once given the dubious prospect of ".. 
going up like a balloon and down like a Led Zeppelin" and that's pretty 
much how I feel right now.

Still, I guess I can live with no POST screen on TV; I'll just make a 
bootable CD for starting winXP and fix any broken kernels by moving the 
box into my office and hooking up the monitor there.. not perfect but 
liveable.

Hope this might save some other poor sod from disappointment..

Youri van Gorselen wrote:

I used the original matrox tool to enable DOS TV-out support(from bios till
linux full boot).
I think the only drawback is that it doesn't seem to have all vesa modes
(most of them are there tho).
Youri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Freevo-users] Question to the Matrox owners out there

 

Ole,

The old AGP slots were keyed in a different way than the current
   

ones...This
 

is to prevent you from putting a 5v card (IIRC) into a 3v slot and
vice-versa.
Cheers,

dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Ole Andre Schistad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Question to the Matrox owners out there
Hey, you're right - I did a little digging (about 2 minutes worth) and
indeed there is a BIOS update which lets you set the card to TV out
permanently. Thank you! I guess there *IS* a perfect HTPC video card after
all hehe - just hope my bid on eBay wins on that G400 :)
I found this thread over at the MythTV archive;

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2003-January/004730.html*
*
Seems to contain everything one needs to know about setting up the G200
   

and
 

presumably this applies to the G400 as well. Wheee :)

Btw, am I right in assuming that new AGP slots are physically different
   

from
 

old 1x AGP cards for a reason and that it's a Bad Idea to try and fit them
together? 8)
-- Ole A.
*
*
Rob Shortt wrote:

   

Isn't there a bios update or something for the G400/450/550 to enable
the tv head by default on bootup?  I think I read a post about such a
beast a while back.
-Rob

Joe Stump wrote:

     

Correct the G450 does not show up on the TV until about midpoint in
the linux bootup process.
       



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