[MPlayer-users] Matrox G400 TV out problem

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:27:43PM -0600, Jay Graves wrote:
> I am really getting confues here, I have played with the config options
> for a while now and I see no change (with the exception of changing matroxset 1 to 2)
> I have read the fbset and fb.modes man pages and neither descript how to
> use fbset to specify a mode listed in fb.modes.

The friendly manual says:

SYNOPSIS
       fbset [options] [mode]

I.e. type fbset followed by any options, then the name of the mode you
want. :)

> I have modified the matroxtv script to call either of these 2 lines
> fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -left 72 -right 40 -upper 30 -lower 10 -hslen 48
> -vslen 5 -xres 640 -yres 480 -bcast true
> 
> fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -left 72 -right 40 -upper 15 -lower 5 -helsen
> 48 -vlsen 3 -xres 640 -yres 240 -bcast true
> 
> and neither of them display any differently than
> fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -left 60 -right 0 -upper 70 -lower 39 -hslen 76
> -vslen 4 -xres 640 -yres 480 -bcast true
> 
> Is there some obvious thing I am missing?

Yes, the pixel clock. It's the most important part. Use -pixclock or
better yet just fbset modename.

Rich