On Sat, November 13, 2004 12:35 pm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt said: > >> suck. how about macosx? im not all that keen install 9 if >> i can avoid it. i need to try seeing if setting tv out and then >> restarting will let me get linux through video out. > > No, I don't have anything for OS X. > >> would anything you did with the m3mirror tool be usefull? > > Not really. > >> tell me of this openbeos radeon info? there is stuff to get >> tv out working with radeons on linux. im pretty sure some >> one of the install walkthroughs linked off the debian ppc >> ports page has some details. >> >> the av cable im using is also used for the ibook after this >> model (dont have it. i just have a clamshell) so users of that >> model ibook might be helped by this project. > > Well, if you don't know the chip well and don't have specs, it will be a > hard time to get that stuff working I'm afraid. You should look at the > initial dual head work for r128 cards that Alex Deucher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did for X.org, since you need at least that > (dual head) as a first step to enabling TV Out. Then, I suggest you look > at the open-beos project (I think it's on SourceForge) for the radeon > code that drives the TV encoder. > > You chip is a Mobility M3, that is an r128, and I think the TV cell in > it is similar to the one in Radeons.
Then it may already work, ill endeavour to follow the walkthroughs for its older siblings - perhaps the existing code will do the trick. Dean
