On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Mark Knecht<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I hope this is the right list to ask some questions and try to > learn how to use the TV Out S-Video port. If not please direct me to > the right list. > > I have a machine that has the ATI 9100 IGP chipset in it. I have no > monitor attached, BIOS is set to display using S-Video, the machine > boots correctly, I see all the boot messages on my TV and can use the > computer in the console just fine watching the TV so at least the > hardware is working. > > Right now my questions are mainly about how to set up the > configuration file. When I run xorgconfig there really aren't any > questions about using the TV Out port so how do I go about setting it > up? Are there any example files online that show how to set this up > from scratch? Do I pretend that I'm doing to use a monitor and then > modify the config file by hand? > > When I attempt to start X with no /etc/X11/xorg.cong file I hear > the machine doing some work and then my TV screen goes blue and I see > nothing else from there on. I can ssh into the machine and look at the > log file while is attached below. > > Anyway, if folks have some idea about how to do this I'd really > appreciate some pointers. > > Distro is Gentoo, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5, xorg-server-1.5.3-r6, > xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1. > > Thanks, > Mark >
OK - I have managed to get fluxbox displaying on the S-Video output of my machine. However when I try and start mythfrontend X crashes with messages about MTRR. Of to try and discover what that might be about. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
