NAME¶
matroxset - switch the output mode of Matrox video cards
SYNOPSIS¶
matroxset [OPTIONS] [VALUE]
OPTIONS¶
- -c
- Get/set control value.
- -e
- Edit controls interactively.
- -f DEVICE
- Manipulate the frame buffer DEVICE (default is /dev/fb1).
- -l
- List controls
- -m
- Connect this frame buffer to the outputs specified in VALUE (0 is none, 1
is primary, 2 is secondary, 4 is digital flat panel; these values may be
summed for multiple outputs).
- -o OUTPUT
- Set OUTPUT (0 is primary, 1 is secondary, default is 1) to the output mode
VALUE (128 is monitor, 1 is PAL TV, 2 is NTSC TV).
- -p
- Display information about blanking.
DESCRIPTION¶
Output Matrox card video to television. PAL 50Hz and NTSC 59.94Hz are supported,
Composite and S-Video output.
Contains two demo programs, normal and swapped. First selects CRTC1 on first
output and CRTC2 on second one. Swapped connects CRTC1 to secondary head and
CRTC2 to primary head. You can use these programs if you need text mode or
8bpp mode on TV, as CRTC2 is incapable of these modes.
In program call, If VALUE is specified, set the specified option to VALUE. If
VALUE is not specified, retrieve the value of the specified option.
For technical information, see
TV-out on the G450 at
<
http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout>. See also "Matrox Marvel"
tips for G200, G400 at <
http://marvel.sourceforge.net/>. Matrox frame
buffer headers at /usr/include/linux/matroxfb.h
ENVIRONMENT¶
None.
FILES¶
None.
SEE ALSO¶
directvnc(1) fbdev(4) fbgrab(1) fbset(1)
fbterm(1) Xvfb(1)
AUTHORS¶
Program was written by Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>.
This manual page was written by Shaun Jackman <sjackman@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated by Jari Aalto
<jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your
option) any later version. For more information about license, visit
<
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.