matroxset(1)

💖 matroxset — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to matroxset(1) 💅 this is a User Commands page and it's literally all about switching the output mode of Matrox video cards. yes THAT Matrox. the vibe is very retro, the info is very real, let's go ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

matroxset — switch the output mode of Matrox video cards 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

matroxset [OPTIONS] [VALUE]

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c — get/set the control value. slay.
• -e — edit controls interactively (yes, you, live, in real time 🫶).
• -f DEVICE — manipulate the frame buffer DEVICE. the default is /dev/fb1.
• -l — list controls 📋
• -m — connect this frame buffer to the outputs specified in VALUE. the values are 0 for none, 1 for primary, 2 for secondary, 4 for digital flat panel — and yes you can sum them to hit multiple outputs at once ✨
• -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 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole point: output your Matrox card's video to a television 📺. PAL 50Hz and NTSC 59.94Hz are both supported, and so is Composite and S-Video output. iconic.

It contains two demo programs, normal and swapped. the normal one selects CRTC1 on the first output and CRTC2 on the second one. the swapped one connects CRTC1 to the secondary head and CRTC2 to the primary head. you'd use these if you need text mode or 8bpp mode on TV, because — and this is the important bit — CRTC2 is incapable of these modes 😭.

In the program call, if VALUE is specified, it sets the specified option to VALUE. if VALUE is not specified, it retrieves the value of the specified option. no cap.

For technical information, see TV-out on the G450 at <http://www.bglug.ca/matrox_tvout>. Also peep the "Matrox Marvel" tips for G200, G400 at <http://marvel.sourceforge.net/>. and the Matrox frame buffer headers live at /usr/include/linux/matroxfb.h 💜

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None. literally nothing. the environment said "not me" 💀

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🍓 FILES 🍓

None. also nothing. she's low maintenance.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

directvnc(1) fbdev(4) fbgrab(1) fbset(1) fbterm(1) Xvfb(1)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The 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 the license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

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and that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖

so like, this page is matroxset and it's page 1 of the manual, dated 2020-06-01 — mwah, periodt ✨🎀💅