TV-out doesn't work under X except on a few matrox and nVidia cards due to NDA issues (macrovision, etc). Even on the supported cards, support is enabled by binary-only drivers (nVidia) or libraries (Matrox). So, for now, you're SOL, unfortunately (though it might be possible to convince it to work using radeonfb, and using the VESA BIOS to set NTSC or PAL mode, but this would be ugly as sin)
-----Original Message----- From: Frederik Meerwaldt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Newbie]ATI Radeon QD with TV-Out and XFree 4.1.0/Linux Hi there, After 3 days of struggling around with this I decided to ask: I keep on having big trouble using the TV-Out of my new ATI Radeon QD. I just traded my old new card against this one, as my old Card (ATI XPert 2000 Pro) had no support in Linux, and I saw everywhere standing, that the ATI Radeon card has. But now back to the problem: If I have the TV attached (doesn't matter if the VGA monitor is attached, too or not) I can't get into X. X starts, but I only get a black picture on the TV and only flickering on my Monitor. With only my Monitor (no TV) attached, it works perfectly. I thought that the Kernel would be the issue (it was 2.4.2), so I updated to 2.4.9, but that still made no difference. My thought is that the problem is related to the sync frequencies. With the TV attached, the vsync is 50 Hz, without, the vsync is 70 Hz. But if I tell xf86config that my vsync is 50 Hz, starting of X fails because it is unable to find a modeline which matches my config. I also tried the updated drivers from LiViD, but that doesn't work either so I installed the original drivers again. Has anyone here a solution for this problem? Has anyone good/bad experience with this card? If there is no chance to get X with TV-Out working on this card, can anyone recommend a good card with TV-Out, which is not too expensive and which can use X on a TV-Out port? Many many thanks in advance, Freddy -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS s+: a--- C+++ UBOU+++ P-- E--- W++ N w--- V++ PGP- t? 5? tv ========================================================================== Frederik Meerwaldt Homepage: http://www.freddym.org Bavaria/Germany OpenVMS and Unix Howtos and much more Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD, IRIX, Tru64, OpenVMS, Ultrix, BeOS _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
