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Anyone got any suggestions on what I can try to get my TV OUT (PAL) working on a VIA EPIA CN10000 board? Does anyone have TV OUT working on this or a similar (CN700 /1625M video chips) platform? If so, could you send me your xorg.conf? And details of which drivers you're using? What BIOS settings do you use? Do I need to compile the latest driver (I'm currently using the stock openchrome from ubuntu 10.04) Any help, pointers, suggestions would be really appreciated! Many Thanks John On 09/08/10 10:15, John wrote: > Hi - > > Hope someone can help me, I've been trying for weeks but had no success > getting TV out to work with PAL output on a VIA EPIA CN13000 (CN700 > /1625M video chips). The system has a basic Ubuntu 10.04 installation. > > From what Ive read it should be fairly straightforward but Im not > having any success. > > I can switch the "TVout" on in th BIOS (either NTSC or PAL, either > composite or S-Video or both) and they work fine in boot up (VIA splash > screen), BIOS editing screen and text boot up of ubuntu. So its clear > the TV out function *can* work and does work with the default video mode > of VIA and text mode during boot of ubuntu. > (Note NTSC seems to be only black and white, PAL is colour) > > However, at the point when ubuntu switches to the X server (or the fb > based text console when booting text only) the TV output briefly flashes > green and then disappears. > > the text output mode (from fbset) is 640x480-60; fbset wont allow me > change it to a different mode and there doesnt seem to be a modeset for > PAL in the /etc/fb.modes file anyway. > > but X is even more worrying in that it often appears to CRASH the > machine. I cant ssh in, nothing is coming out, no services seem to > start (nmap on the machine shows nothing including no reply to ping) > > this is with many combinations of settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but > the one I really thought would work was (note: BIOS set to TV-out only, > PAL, on both comp and S-video) > > .... > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values:<i>: integer,<f>: float,<bool>: "True"/"False", > ###<string>: "String",<freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "PrintVGARegs" # [<bool>] > #Option "PrintTVRegs" # [<bool>] > #Option "I2CScan" # [<bool>] > #Option "VBEModes" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "AccelMethod" #<str> > #Option "ExaNoComposite" # [<bool>] > #Option "ExaScratchSize" #<i> > #Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] > #Option "RotationType" # [<str>] > #Option "Rotate" # [<str>] > #Option "VideoRAM" #<i> > Option "ActiveDevice" "TV" # [<str>] > #Option "BusWidth" # [<str>] > #Option "Center" # [<bool>] > #Option "PanelSize" # [<str>] > #Option "ForcePanel" # [<bool>] > #Option "TVDotCrawl" # [<bool>] > #Option "TVDeflicker" #<i> > Option "TVType" "PAL" # [<str>] > #Option "TVOutput" "Composite" # [<str>] > #Option "TVPort" # [<str>] > #Option "DisableVQ" # [<bool>] > #Option "DisableIRQ" # [<bool>] > #Option "EnableAGPDMA" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoAGPFor2D" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoXVDMA" # [<bool>] > #Option "VbeSaveRestore" # [<bool>] > #Option "DisableXvBWCheck" # [<bool>] > #Option "ModeSwitchMethod" # [<str>] > #Option "MaxDRIMem" #<i> > #Option "AGPMem" #<i> > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "openchrome" > VendorName "VIA Technologies, Inc." > BoardName "CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro]" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Modes "720x576Noscale" > Depth 8 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Modes "720x576Noscale" > Depth 15 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Modes "720x576Noscale" > Depth 16 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Modes "720x576Noscale" > # Modes "800x600" > # Modes "1024x768" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Any ideas / help would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
