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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:56:50PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> 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.

That's for G450/G550, which are crippled/lame versions of the G400.
The G400 is all-free. I don't see how it could require extra nonfree
stuff for X, since you can set it up for TVout without the X server
even knowing one head is on TVout...

Rich