[mythtv-users] X output to TV not working?

[Ray Olszewski]

At 09:07 AM 6/26/2003 -0700, Nick Stephens wrote:
>Short story: TV Out works during bootup (Redhat 9 install), service
>startup, console login.  When I startx, the screen goes completely white,
>and doesn't work.  What settings do I need in X for proper TV display?
[...]
>because of this, I am not using a tv tuner card, but rather using a simple
>little PCI ATI Rage II+DVD that has svideo out.
[...]

Getting TV-out to work with X on any ATI card is a bit iffy. The MythTV 
HowTo has this information about your card (I think it is the same card, 
anyway):

"ATI Rage II+DVD (Mach 64). Ports not described. Reported to work, but no 
details reported."

Since no details were reported (here on this list by the person who said he 
made it work - you'll have to search the archive for the actual message), I 
cannot be certain, but this *probably* means you need to use the 
exprimental ati.2 X driver.

Here's what the MythTV HowTo says about this:

"ATI makes many cards with TV-out capability, but ATI offers no official 
support for their use with Linux. The standard XFree86 ati driver does not 
support TV-out.

"The enhanced ati.2 X driver created by the GATOS 
http://gatos.sourceforge.net project offers some support for TV-out, but 
only in its "experimental" version, available through CVS. There have been 
reports from people who say they have made this driver work with one or 
another ATI card. For example, Bruce Markey mailto:bjm at lvcm.com writes (on 
the mythtv-users mailing list): "I got this to work. You can quote me on 
that. I've used TV-out on several models of ATI cards both All-In-Wonder 
and regular cards with TV-out." See the "Adventurous Setup" section of 
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php for details. Also see 
http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/tvout.html for more information."

If you do get this card working (with TV-out -AND- XVideo), the HowTo would 
benefit from your reporting the details here.