Re: probably an FAQ - g450 vs g400 tv out?

Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:20:27 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:01:29PM +0930, davidm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suspect this ought to be an FAQ, but I can't find anything definitive
> easily...
> 
> I have a g450. I cannot get my tv to sync to the tvout if I attach the
> primary crtc to that output (eg, taken from
> http://www.rockhopper.dk/linux/hardware/graphics_cards.html:

G450/G550 hardware doesn't support what you want. Only CRTC2 can drive
the TV-encoder.

> (obviously it would be nice to be able to get the goodies from the
> primary crtc through the tv, rather than effectively having a dumb fb).

Well, the only goodie CRTC1 has over CRTC2 is the BES so you're not missing
that much.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
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http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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