[MPlayer-users] Offtopic -- G400 TV-Out on a single output G400

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:44:05AM +0200, Gabucino wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Definitely not true. Just use matroxset to switch the second head to
> > tvout after starting X. (You should be using the UseFBDev option to
> > the mga X driver so it does mode-setting thru fb device rather than
> > raw io, but I don't know if it matters.)
> Well that's true, but using XFree86 on top of fbdev is quite lame.
> You definitely need hallib to get X+TVout on G400, without fbdev.

No, incorrect. UseFBDev is very very VERY different from using the
generic fbdev X driver. It just means the mga X driver will set the
mode via fbcon ioctl's rather than setting the video mode registers
manually. If you don't enable it, you're likely to corrupt your
console when using both fbcon and X.

How about trying matroxset next time before claiming you need hallib?

Rich