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

Ryan Underwood nemesis-lists at icequake.net
Mon Oct 6 20:56:50 CEST 2003


Hi,

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:54:01PM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> 
> >The G400 is an almost antique card, so don't compare it to what is now on
> >the market.
> 
> As far as I have heard, G400 has still best support from free drivers. The
> 3D acceleration is completely open source, and there aren't many such
> cards. I'm not sure about the status of the TV-out (would it need
> proprietary binary drivers?).

AFAIK, TV-Out under XFree86 (as well as dualhead at all) requires the
proprietary module.  To avoid that you could use the framebuffer device
instead.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253



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