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

[Ryan Underwood]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:49:49PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Sorry, I meant TV-Out on the second head.  The mga hallib driver exists
for G400 as well and is required under XFree86 for TV-Out (unless you
know otherwise)?

> 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...

If you can let me know how to use the second head in VGA and in TV-Out
mode under XFree86 without the hallib, I would much appreciate it!
(I have a dualhead console working with the linux fb console)

I saw that it is perhaps possible with the FB device, but you would be
disabling 3D acceleration on the first head, and I also tried this
before with poor results (don't remember the specifics).

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