[mythtv-users] Laptop w/ ATI FireGL, fglrxconfig, and TV-Out ... oh my!

[Nick]

On 13/09/05, David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
> So I spent all day yesterday trying to get TV-OUT to work with my
> Laptop equipped with an ATI FireGL T2.
> 
> The closest I could get was to use Mirror mode and have the Live-TV
> or recorded playback on both the laptop LCD and TV-OUT, which results
> in extremely choppy video on both displays.  Note, the frontend menu
> and GUI show up just fine on the TV-OUT and laptop LCD
> simultaniously.  It's playback of any kind that is the issue.
> 
> Looking in an older version of the ATI Proprietary release notes
> (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_3.12.0.html) I found this
> nice quip under the Monitor Settings section that talks about which
> monitor should be the primary and which the secondary:
> 
>    "Note: A connected digital display is always the primary display"

Have you tried:

    Option "MonitorLayout"              "NONE, STV"

I use this on my Pundit-R to get S-Video out of the TV-Out connection.
It should only look at the secondary video output.

Nick