Mystique+RR as second card ?

[Halbling]

Hi

I finally got a Mystique220 + RainbowRunner and it is great -- in one way...

On the other hand it does not work like I expected: I can't capture or use tv-playback when I use another videocard (3D-one, AGP) for booting up...

Even when I don't use the Matrox in Win98, PC-VCR complains about Mystique using an unsupported 4bit-palette ;-(

Any workarounds except using 'VGA boot from PCI' and multiple hardware-profiles in Win98 ?

[ThoVie]

Hi there,

sorry, but the RR only works when you configure the Mystique as the primary card in your system. You'll have to switch AGP / PCI as master during bootup if you need to switch between the RR or your second card as master.

Bye,
Thorsten

[wkulecz]

This is a designed in directdraw/directX problem straight from Microsoft.

Any advanced video features, overlay particularly, just won't work on the secondary display and there is little Matrox or anyone else can do about it.

--wally.

[Halbling]

That's what I figured out by now, but there HAS to be some other way ?

Btw...video4linux claims support for the Zoran-chip on the RainbowRunner...must check out this one

[jumphog]

Im just about to get hold of a mystique/rainbow runner, and was hoping to use it as a second card for editing etc. It seems this wont be possible, but is it possible to use it as a primary card with an geforce as a secondary for 3d etc?