[mythtv-users] Savage video cards, TV out, and X

Jeremy Green jag at brownout.com
Mon May 5 23:03:41 EDT 2003


I just noticed that if I set my X to start up in 16 bit mode it fails 
to find any BIOS modes and then the TVOut doesn't work.  TVOut works 
fine in 24 bit mode.
I have yet to get any video to play though...

				-Jeremy


On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 09:59 PM, James Knight wrote:

> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 03:03  PM, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>> Additional details: if both TV and VGA displays are connected, and I 
>> startx, the VGA display blanks. The X startup includes this message:
>> 	(EE) SAVAGE(0): Failed to fetch any BIOS modes. Disabling BIOS.
>
> This is the problem. I don't know what caused this error, but, if the 
> X driver doesn't use BIOS mode-switching, it will not work, at all, on 
> a TV. The X driver's non-BIOS-mode-switching code doesn't actually do 
> the right thing to make TV out work on the majority of hardware.
>
> I recall seeing that message at one point during my attempts to get my 
> Shuttle's savage card to work, but I'm not sure what fixed it. Have 
> you tried using "s3switch TV" before running X? I think that may have 
> done something for me.
>
> James
>
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