On Thursday 01 Jun 2006 11:01, Stuart Morris wrote: > I have been reading the 'TV-out, softdevice' thread and it appears > there are users out there happy with their G450 + softdevice setup. > I have a G450 but have been put off using it with VDR because > information on how to get this combination to work on the net is > poor. Googling gives information that is very old. Can anyone > provide a concise howto describing everything required to set up > a G450 head2 rgb-scart with softdevice on a recent 2.6.x kernel? Have you looked at the TV-out info on the softdevice web page: http://softdevice.berlios.de/#TV-Out It was a while ago that I set my G450 up but I think it was pretty straightforward. Here's hoping that someone will correct me here! One thing I _can't_ remember is whether the stock matroxfb in the kernel source works or whether it needs replacing with a different version (maybe someone else can enlighten us on this!). You will need a couple of patches which are to be found in the DirectFB source: matroxfb-g400-clock-2.6.6.patch.bz2 (not quite sure what this one does) matroxfb-full-memory-linux-2.6.6.patch.bz2 (this lets you use all of the RAM literally changes a couple of lines) It looks like the matroxfb-vsync-irq patch has been included in the stock kernel so isn't needed now. I made a component RGB cable from the schematics at: http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewforum.php?f=52&sid=a1c50e38759f99f96d4bf184cfef9c78 (pretty sure it was the "Scart-RGB cable for the Millennium G450" one which I bodged from a lead pinched off an old monitor. Apart from that, I think I just built CVS DirectFB, CVS softdevice and it all just worked, apart from I was seeing lots of horizontal lines when scaling to a 4:3 TV (fixed by setting softdevice to 16:9 and setting my TV to 16:9 or 4:3 as needed!), although I think that has been resolved now. As I mentioned in a previous posting it was working perfectly until I updated softdevice a few weeks back. Now the A-V sync sometimes wanders and interlaced streams aren't always smooth. Yet to track down the cause of this... Cheers, Laz
