On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Stefan Monnier<[email protected]> wrote: > Has someone managed to get TV-out working on a Macbook Pro? Without any > option in my xorg.conf, `xrandr' only shows me the LVDS and a DVI-0 > output. This outpout works well when I plug a VGA monitor via Apple's > adapter, but when I plug the "DVI to Video adapter" (which has both an > S-Video and a composite output), xrandr tells me that DVI-0 is connected > but has no modes. > > If I try and manually set some modes (mostly trying the ones I found on > http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/vga2scart/), my TV (connected via the > composite output) shows some garbled output (maybe just a lack of sync: > I can barely make out some shapes that relate to the content of my > screen). > > `xrandr --output DVI-0 --set tv_standard ntsc' complains that > tv_standard is not a known attribute (and indeed `xrandr --verbose' > does not list it). > > If I try to use the "Option ATOMTvOut TRUE" in my xorg.conf, the > behavior is basically the same, except that I additionally get a 3rd > output in xrandr, named S-Video, which always says "disconnected". > If I force it to be considered as connected (with "Option ForceTVOut > true"), and then activate it, my TV screen (still connected via > composite since it doesn't have an S-Video input) stays blank. > > See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23535 if you want to > see the Xorg.log. Has anybody seen something like that? > Found a solution for it?
You'll need to use xf86-video-ati from git master or the stable 6.12-branch and the workaround I described in bug 23535. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
