[MPlayer-users] Matrox G400 TV out problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:35:03PM -0500, Krister Lagerstrom wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:27:43PM -0600, Jay Graves wrote:
> 
> >> Is there some obvious thing I am missing?
> >
> >
> > Yes, the pixel clock. It's the most important part. Use -pixclock or
> >  better yet just fbset modename.
> 
> Actually, the pixel clock is ignored for the G400 fb driver. The pixel
> clock is calculated from the desired vertical refresh rate (59.97 or
> 50HZ) and the number of pixels on the screen. The G400 driver also
> can't generate every pixel clock frequency so it twiddles the
> resolution a little bit to get the right clock (see the
> /var/log/messages output). All this makes it hard to figure out good
> modelines for G400 TV-out. But the ones in mplayer and freevo works for
> me at least.

Jay is looking for NTSC modes, as opposed to PAL, but the script
appears to only support PAL. Any ideas? Now that I hear about that
nonsense the G400 stuff does, I'm glad I just made my own gear to use
with G200 for tv out. :)

Rich