> I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It
> has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all
> kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go.
>
> I'm using the "ati" driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos
> driver might be better. I haven't even turned this laptop on in quite
> a while so it's running a lot of old stuff. Should I update x11-xorg
> to 7.0 and use a particular VIDEO_CARD flag and see if that works? How
> should my xorg.conf look?
TV-out is probably one of the worst-supported things in X right now.
There is no "official" X.Org driver that supports it. The gatos driver
purports to, although it may not work with 7.1. Also I think someone
posted a patch to the xorg list a few months ago to add it to the ati
driver.
If you're able to use the binary drivers with your card, you may have
better luck there.
I'm running out of steam on this for now, but this seems to be the key
component:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127642
it's a patch for xorg 7.0 to enable TV-out with the ati driver. The
old laptop I'm trying to set this up on needs some of work before it's
up to speed and I can test this.
- Grant
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