But doing that loses both 2D, 3D and video overlay acceleration, so do this
only when you really need TV-out. (assuming it even works for this)

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Newbie]ATI Radeon QD with TV-Out and XFree 4.1.0/Linux


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Sprague, IT3 wrote:
> 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)

Using the VESA BIOS and VESA driver can be as simple as changing the line
Driver "ati" to Driver "vesa" in ones XF86Config.

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