NAME
matroxset - switch the output mode of Matrox video cards
SYNOPSIS
matroxset [[OPTION] ...] [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 mMatrox card video to television. PAL 50Hz and NTSC 59.94Hz are
supported, Composite and S-Video output.
Contains two demoprograms, 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, retreive 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>. z