Dear all, I have an HD2900XT with S-Video TV out, on a Debian Testing/Unstable 64-bit machine, and I'm trying to connect my PC to my old-school analog TV. I live in the Netherlands where the TV format is PAL.
Lately I've been experimenting with the "radeon" driver, and I followed these directions to setup the TV output: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonTV When I run 'xrandr' I see the TV connected (device name is "DIN"), and several modes are listed. However, no matter which mode I select, the TV image is visible but it is continuously rolling horizontally, out of sync. On the other hand, the vertical sync is perfect, no problems there. Here's the full device section from my xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "Video Card" Driver "radeon" Option "ATOMTvOut" "on" Option "TVStandard" "pal" Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor1" Option "Monitor-DIN" "Monitor2" EndSection And here is what xrandr (--verbose) says about my analog TV: DIN connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x52 Timestamp: 36757857 Subpixel: no subpixels Clones: CRTCs: 0 1 Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 filter: tv_standard: pal load_detection: 1 (0x00000001) range: (0,1) 1360x768 (0x54) 84.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1360 start 1432 end 1568 total 1776 skew 0 clock 47.7KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 781 total 798 clock 59.8Hz 1024x768 (0x55) 63.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 1024 start 1072 end 1176 total 1328 skew 0 clock 47.8KHz v: height 768 start 771 end 775 total 798 clock 59.9Hz 800x600 (0x56) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz 800x600 (0x57) 38.2MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 800 start 832 end 912 total 1024 skew 0 clock 37.4KHz v: height 600 start 603 end 607 total 624 clock 59.9Hz 848x480 (0x58) 31.5MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 848 start 872 end 952 total 1056 skew 0 clock 29.8KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 720x480 (0x59) 26.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 720 start 744 end 808 total 896 skew 0 clock 29.9KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 493 total 500 clock 59.7Hz 640x480 (0x5a) 25.2MHz -HSync -VSync h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz 640x480 (0x5b) 23.8MHz -HSync +VSync h: width 640 start 664 end 720 total 800 skew 0 clock 29.7KHz v: height 480 start 483 end 487 total 500 clock 59.4Hz I tried with the debian packages of the radeon driver (6.12.6 from testing and 6.12.192 from unstable), as well as checking out the latest code from the git repository. The results, as far as TV out is concerned, were identical. In the past, I've had success with fglrx and TV out, but I have an -ever growing- allergy for closed-source drivers. However, I can say for sure that the TV out of my card and the S-Video input of my TV are both functional, no hardware problem there. I understand that the option "ATOMTvOut" is not very stable, but I feel I'm very close to a solution. Does anybody have a suggestion on what I could do to fix this? I'm an electronics & computer engineer with experience in designing hardware and writing linux device drivers, so if somebody could point me the right way, I could also take a shot at the source code and try to fix it (if there is anything wrong with the code anyway). Please CC me if you reply because I'm not yet subscribed to this list. Thank you in advance for any help and for all your efforts with the radeon driver. Cheers, Dimitris _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
