How To for G400

[flyceo]

Hello everybody!

I'll buy a Matrox G400 for my new living-room pc. As OS I'll use OpenSuse 10.2. And now I'm looking for a step by step HowTo for configuring the G400 Dualhead with TV Adaptor (for PAL System).

Can anyone help with a link? I also read that some user have a G400 running with TV support, maybe they can post a HowTo here?

I read about Framebuffer Drivers like DirectFB. Do I need them?

Thank you very much
Roland

[seth]

I am trying to get Cloned TV output working on my g400 Myth box. If someone could post an example config file, that would be awesome

[tuxx-home.at]

@flyceo:

Evrything about the TV-Out support on G-series cards should be handled
in the drivers readme file, here's the link:

[http://tuxx-home.at/projects/mga/4.4/readme.txt]

If you have any problems configuring this setup, come back here with more
detailed information, especially I need to see your xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log
files.



@seth:
Again, out of the readme file:

Code: Select all

Example: Clone Mode

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "G400_1"
    Driver      "mga"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "G400_2"
    Driver      "mga"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen      1
    Option      "Tv" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier "Layout1"
     Screen     "Screen0"
     Screen     "Screen1"
     Option     "Xinerama"
     InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
     InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


So, the clone mode on this card requires a ServerLayout section like the
one above.

Additionally, there's a good HOWTO (unfortunately, only in german)
available here:

[http://wiki.unixboard.de/index.php/HowTo:DualHead]

But the configuration examples it self are in Xorg language and therefore
they should be understandable