From ff5d5e03132b85c8c906727edd500d7697ddbcb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gabucino Under Linux you have 2 methods to get G400 TV out working: IMPORTANT: Only Matrox G400DH/G400MAX has TV-out support under Linux, others (G450, G550) have not! IMPORTANT: for Matrox G450/G550 TV-out instructions, please see the
+ next section! TV output support for these cards has only been recently introduced, and is
+ not yet in the mainstream kernel. Currently the mga_vid module
+ can't be used AFAIK, because the G450/G550 driver works only in one
+ configuration: the first CRTC chip (with much more features) on the first
+ display (on monitor), and the second CRTC (no BES - for explanation
+ on BES, please see the G400 section above) on TV. So you can only use
+ MPlayer's fbdev output driver at the present. The first CRTC can't be routed to the second head currently.
+ The author of the kernel matroxfb driver - Petr Vandrovec - will maybe make
+ support for this, by displaying the first CRTC's output onto both of the
+ heads at once, as currently recommended for G400, see the section above. The necessary kernel patch and the detailed howto is downloadable from
+ http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.eriksen/matrox_tvout
-2.3.1.A.2 ATI cards
+2.3.1.A.2 Matrox G450/G550 cards
+
+2.3.1.A.3 ATI cards
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@@ -1349,7 +1369,7 @@ for 16:9 TV: -vop lavc,expand=-1:576:-1:-1:1,scale=-1:0,dvbscale=1024
POST procedure.
Check this URL.