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

Eni Gma enigma at thedonnerparty.com
Thu Jun 26 12:57:53 EDT 2003


Ray Olszewski wrote:

> 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.

I was the one who reported this card working.  I do not use the ati.2 
drivers for this (although I do use those drivers for my other two ATI 
cards).   There are patches/drivers to enable TV-out for this card 
located at http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/tvout.html.  





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