[Gllug] TV-Out under Linux

[Richard Cohen]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
> >Powerdesk is Windoze software, IIRC. To be really sick, would it work under
> >Wine? ;-)
>
> No need. There's a native Linux version. However, on mine, at least, the
> TV out options are greyed out. No idea how to activate them, but I assume
> since they put them there in the first place, there must be a way somehow.
> Or maybe it just queries the mga XFree86 driver to see if it's capable of
> TV out before letting you choose. That would allow the powerdesk util to
> support it as soon as the driver was able to do so...

When they released the powerdesk software for Linux (incidentally, under the
GPL!), they also released a slightly different XFree86 driver which had the
support for the powerdesk functionality.  IIRC it even included dynamic
changing where possible, i.e. changing stuff without restarting X.  Check
the Matrox FTP site...

> Tet

Cheers
Richard


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