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New section: Matrox TVout - method 2

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<P><I>Anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ...</I>
Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts.</P>


<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.A.2>2.2.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P>

<P>
<b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR>
Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux.

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<P><I>Anyway i also just get monochrome output on the tv ...</I>
Maybe you have NTSC TV? Or just didn't run one of TV-* scripts.</P>


<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.A.1a>2.2.1.A.1a. Matrox cards (method 2 - the XFree approach)</A></B></P>

<P>The previous method doesn't work very good for X users, since either they
have to shutdown it, or it becomes uselessly messy. This section is for them.</P>

<P>
<LI>compile the matroxfb stuff to modules</LI>
<LI>load modules with the <CODE>./modules</CODE> script</LI>
<LI>turn on display cloning with <CODE>./cloning</CODE></LI>
<LI>execute <CODE>./TV-640x512</CODE> or whichever resolution you
wish to use</LI>
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<P>Now you should have a clean picture on the TV, and maybe a somewhat strange
picture on the console. But console doesn't matter, start X. Your TV
goes black or have strange stripes, but monitor/X is fine !<BR>
So, anytime you want to start watching something on TV, just start
<B>MPlayer</B> in X (<CODE>-vo mga</CODE> of course, and calculate
<CODE>-x</CODE> and <CODE>-y</CODE> values by hand), change to tty1 (with
ctrl-alt-f1), and turn off the monitor.
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<P><B><A NAME=2.2.1.A.2>2.2.1.A.2. ATI cards</A></B></P>

<P>
<b>A few word about ATI's TV-out:</b><BR>
Currently ATI doesn't want to support any of its TV-out chips under Linux.