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Hello All,<BR>
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I have an ASUS Pundit system - it's a small footprint system with onboard everything, including DVI, Composite, S-Video, and VGA output ports. This device has an onboard video card using the ATI Radeon 9100 IGP(?) chipset. I want to use the composite video output to connect to the television.<BR>
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Myth is set up and works fine. I love it. I have updated it to the latest (almost) verion via SVN. It works when the system is connected to my monitor. I have connected it to several flat-panel LCD monitors using the VGA cable, and it works fabulous.<BR>
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The composite TV-Out port does not work.<BR>
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Now don't get me wrong. The TV-Out port does send a signal. In fact, the TV-Out displays just fine on the TV during system post, and when displaying all the kernel messages. It also works fine if I use CTL-ALT-Fx to bring up a character based screen - this is how I have been editing my xorg.conf file, so I don't have to reboot to pick up the monitor intead of the TV. However, I cannot find a ModeLine in X (xorg 7.0 as part of the Debian distribution) that works. It displays to the television, but there are a series of wavy lines, and a lot of movement. You can see the colours from the MythTV theme, but the picture is messed up. I am old enough to remember the V-Hold knob on old CRTs, and this video looks like a picture where the V-Hold is not set correctly.<BR>
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I have tried many ModeLines. I have tried 640x480. I have tried 720x480, and 720x400. I have added the interlace option, -hsync, +hsync, -vsync, and +vsync, and many of these in combination. There have been some changes to the picture that are noticeable, but none that made the picture stable.<BR>
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Can anyone help me? MythTV is not nearly as useful to me unless I can get it working with my CRT televisions.<BR>
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Note, I have already looked through the WIKI, and searched the net for appropriate Modes. I found some information on the Myth WIKI about a proprietary ATI driver for X, and when installing it a message says that it does not support my version of X (needs 7.1). BUT, the literature on this proprietary ATI driver does not indicate that the problem is with modes - it seems to imply that the problem is that TV-OUT simply does not work at all, though that is not stated.<BR>
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Does anyone - Anyone - have any clue what's up, and how I can fix it? I have heard in passing that the ASUS Pundit was a popular system for turining into a media center. Are there any Pundit system owners out there who have faced and defeated the issue that I am having?
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