[wplug] ATI Radeon and S-video

[Robert E. Coutch]

I had it working on an ATi 9200.
Had to use the ATi binary driver and configure the s-video in X as a second 
device.

Then there's an ATi utility that did the switching - atitvout I think it was.

I had too many problems with the ATi driver and have since switched to an 
Nvidia 6800 based card using Nvidia's drivers.

-Bob


On Tuesday 30 May 2006 03:36 am, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> Has anyone here gotten X to work on the S-video output of a dual-output
> Radeon card?  I've been messing with my X configuration trying to get my
> card to drive a signal into a TV and I've gotten all of nowhere.  There's
> a lot of noise on the web about framebuffers, dual head versus cloned
> versus Xinerama, proprietary versus reverse-engineered drivers, etc., and
> I am having a hard time figuring out what is supported and what is simply
> not possible.
>
> My ideal setup would be to be able to use the computer with the one head,
> as I have been, normally, and occasionally fire up the S-video out with a
> totally separate X session to display videos, where I could optimize the
> display resolution and everything.  But again, I have no idea if that's
> possible.
>
> A nice fallback would be to use the comptuer normally, occasionally
> turning on the TV and having a cloned output of the computer's screen,
> downsampled to the TV's resolution (does the framebuffer do that? what
> does the framebuffer do?  What is a framebuffer?  And don't say STFW,
> because the Web doesn't seem to know, either)
>
> Presently I can't get anything to display to the TV at all, except that
> if I boot with it turned on then i get the bootup process, up until X
> starts, at which point it goes to crazy interference.
>
> Any help appreciated.  I don't know what information is relevant to
> provide.  My card is a Radeon 9200 with VGA and S-video out; my X server
> is XFree86 version 4.3.0.1 (Debian) [thanks again for helping me get back
> to XFree86 from Xorg].  I think I understand the XF86Config file pretty
> well at this point.. I just have no idea what to put in it.
>
> An off-list discussion would be fine, also.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brandon
>
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