[Gllug] TV out

[Xander D Harkness]

Stan wrote:

>Rev Simon Rumble (simon at rumble.net) apparently wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed 30 Oct, Xander D Harkness bloviated thus:
>>    
>>
>>>I was wondering that while Matrox and Nvidia provide cards that provide 
>>>TV out under Linux, are there any that people would recommend?
>>>      
>>>
>>Be aware that Matrox G450 and G550 do NOT do TV-Out under Linux, and
>>probably never will.  The Matrox people always go "mumble mumble
>>Macrovision" and change the subject.  It's something of a sore point
>>with many Matrox owners as the support under Windows is fantastic.
>>    
>>
>
>Actually it does...it requires that you patch your kernel but it works
>v well.  Well it does on my machine at home which says this is the card:
>
>lspci -vv
><snip>
>
>01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 Dual Head LX
>        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>        Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 8000ns max), cache line size 08
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
>        Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>        Region 1: Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>        Region 2: Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
>        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>  
>

Thanks to everyone for their input.

I was going to go buy a Matrox; however I have just received a response 
back from Matrox (who I emailed at the same time as Gllug).  As a result 
of their response I think I shall go Nvidia :-)

######################################

Xander,
I'm afraid not, but keep checking our site - never say never.
Regards
Graphics sales

-----Original Message-----
From: Xander D Harkness [mailto:xander at harkness.co.uk]
Sent: 30 October 2002 15:39
To: Graphic Sales UK
Subject: Matrox cards and Linux



Dear Sir / Madam,

Please could you advise me if you have any Video cards that are capable 
of TV out under Linux?

This does not necessarily have to be using your own drivers, if it works 
with someone else's code I am happy to use it.

Kind regards
Xander


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