[mythtv-users] PAL TV out on Intel Mac Mini w/ubuntu?

Shaun Lowry shaun at lowry.me.uk
Thu Nov 29 10:21:39 UTC 2007


Has anyone had any success getting X working with the PAL DVI->SVideo 
converter on an Intel Mac Mini?  I have a Core Duo system I'm trying to 
get up and running with Ubuntu 7.10.  I'm using the i810 modesetting 
Xorg driver (xserver-xorg-video-i810 2:1.7.4-0ubuntu5), which seems to 
work fine on my VGA monitor, but always seems to report "(EE) I810(0): 
No Video BIOS modes for chosen depth." when attached to my TV regardless 
of what I do in xorg.conf.  Interestingly, I get this in my Xorg.log:

(II) I810(0): Display Presence: CRT: attached: FALSE, encoder: TRUE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: TV: attached: TRUE, encoder: TRUE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: DFP (digital flat panel): attached: 
TRUE, encoder: TRUE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: LFP (local flat panel): attached: FALSE, 
encoder: FALSE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: Second (second CRT): attached: FALSE, 
encoder: FALSE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: TV2 (second TV): attached: FALSE, 
encoder: FALSE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: DFP2 (second digital flat panel): 
attached: FALSE, encoder: FALSE
(II) I810(0): Display Presence: LFP2 (second local flat panel): 
attached: FALSE, encoder: FALSE
(==) I810(0): Display Info: enabled.
(II) I810(0): Broken BIOSes cause the system to hang here.
              If you encounter this problem please add
                 Option "DisplayInfo" "FALSE"
              to the Device section of your XF86Config file.
(II) I810(0): Display Info: CRT: attached: FALSE, present: TRUE, size: 
(720,400)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: TV: attached: TRUE, present: TRUE, size: 
(1024,768)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: DFP (digital flat panel): attached: TRUE, 
present: TRUE, size: (1,1)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP (local flat panel): attached: FALSE, 
present: FALSE, size: (0,1543)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: Second (second CRT): attached: FALSE, 
present: FALSE, size: (0,1543)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: TV2 (second TV): attached: FALSE, present: 
FALSE, size: (0,1543)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: DFP2 (second digital flat panel): attached: 
FALSE, present: FALSE, size: (0,1543)
(II) I810(0): Display Info: LFP2 (second local flat panel): attached: 
FALSE, present: FALSE, size: (0,1543)
(II) I810(0): Size of device DFP (digital flat panel) is 1 x 1
(II) I810(0): Currently active displays on Pipe A:
(II) I810(0):   DFP (digital flat panel)
(II) I810(0): Lowest common panel size for pipe A is 1 x 1
(II) I810(0): No active displays on Pipe B.
(==) I810(0): Display is using Pipe A

Note that it thinks it has both a TV and Digital Flat Panel attached, 
and the that DFP is size 1x1!

Has anyone got this working, or is OS/X the only way to go here?  If so, 
what's the status of MythMusic on OS/X?

    Shaun.


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