[mythtv-users] Latest radeon drivers broke vga->tv

[Jose Bernardo Silva]

Forgot to add xorg.conf.

2007/10/7, Jose Bernardo Silva <jose.bandos at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I've just made the huge mistake of updating my media centre pc (a
> advent DHE-500) from ubuntu feisty to mythbuntu gutsy. After fighting
> wifi network startup and a few PEBCAKs, I am now stuck on getting tv
> out. Svideo doesn't seem to work at all, but it might be the cable
> which I haven used for years. I've also seen a couple of posts that
> imply that SVideo PAL is broken for the xorg ati driver, including
> this bug entry - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12007.
>
> But the worst is that my finely tuned modelines for my Samsung PAL
> 16:9 TV no longer work, it seems they are interpreted differently from
> the previous driver versions. I have a ATI Radeon X300, that came with
> the pc, and a home built VGA to SCART cable, that works fine.
> I don't know if it is because the updated driver decides to ignore the
> "NoDDC" and "IgnoreEDID" "On" entries in xorg.conf, or because
> suddenly modelines have whole different meanings, I just know I can't
> get a visible output on my tv. I have included the xorg.conf that
> worked well with my previous installation on this machine, in hope
> that someone might have seen this problem and been able to surpass or
> work around it.
>
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