The commands to interact with this video card can be given to the XFree86 driver developers since ATI is the kind of company that is always willing to help the developers.
Regards, Jeroen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sprague, IT3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:31 AM Subject: RE: [Newbie]ATI Radeon QD with TV-Out and XFree 4.1.0/Linux > 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. > > -- > Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My website: http://www.iain.thomas.dial.pipex.com/ > XMMS not playing > > _______________________________________________ > 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
