Vladimir Shved wrote: >Is there anyway to lower cpu usage on G450 w/ vdr/softdevice? > No idea, I use graphtft in fb-mode (which also consumes high amounts of cpu (up to 90% when playing movies as it updates the screen every second). >At the moment >it uses about 27%+ cpu constantly on my system, is it normal? I've tried ATI >7000 LE, w/ gatos/XORG/xv and it was using only 17% but picture and OSD is >much worse than G450s. > >Just some indirectly related questions. >Is hardware acceleration supported on g450 TV-out at all with this setup? > > > As far as I undestood the various readmes there is no hardware acceleration on 2nd port (which is the tv.out port). >Is g400 would work better than g450? > >Are there any start up parameters can be passed to kernel so second >head(tvout) would run in NTSC mode? > > You can use matroxset to change this setting (and also some more ;) ). Useful links for g450 tv-out: http://davedina.apestaart.org/download/doc/Matrox-TVOUT-HOWTO-0.1.txt http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout/ Regards, Norbert
