[mythtv-users] ATI TV Out

Tilman Kispersky tilman at wiredmail.org
Sun Oct 31 23:11:10 UTC 2004


ATI only has drivers on their website (that I can find) for the 8500 and up.
I have a 7500.  Will those drivers work for me anyhow?

 From surfing the web the GATOS drivers (gatos.sf.net) seemed
to be the thing to get this to work. Although they are trying
to provide a Mythtv lookalike for ATI all in wonder cards, a section
of their website is specifically devoted to TV out on ati cards.

Any more advice in light of this?

tilman

Prash said the following on 10/31/04 17:16:

>The ATI drivers provided with the distro do not support tvout. You
>have to get the fglrx accelerated ATI drivers from ATI.
>(http://www.ati.com). Note that ATI have started making the drivers
>available for beta testing on http://rpms.livna.org. Use any method to
>install drivers either directly from ATI or from livna.org.
>
>They only support XFree but can be made to work Xorg with  apatch.
>Search on this forum and www.rage3d.com and www.fedorafaq.com forum
>for that (if using fedora)
>
>
>
>
>
>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:59:44 -0500, Tilman Kispersky
><tilman at wiredmail.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>I am trying to get my TV out working.
>>
>>My ATI Radeon 7500 has an S-video out port that I have connected
>>to my TV via the S-video in port.
>>
>>When I am not running X (ie. just in console mode) the computer
>>screen shows up just fine on the TV.
>>
>>When I startx, the picture on the TV screen is completely garbled.
>>I have tried many different resolutions, none of which work.
>>
>>I have installed atitvout and gatos but I'm not really sure if they are
>>installed correctly or configured properly.
>>
>>Some examples of atitvout:
>># atitvout detect
>>CRT is attached.
>>TV is attached via S-Video
>># atitvout vbe
>>VBE Version: 2.0
>>VBE OEM Identification: ATI RADEON 7500
>># atitvout standard
>>Can set on the fly:
>>ntsc
>>pal
>>Current standard is NTSC.
>># atitvout tvout       (this one is obviously a candidate for where the
>>problem might be)
>>VBE call failed.
>>Maybe this command is not supported by your graphics adapter?
>>Did your parameters (if you specified some) really make sense?
>>Please try all other available commands before complaining!
>>
>>XFConfig-4:
>>Section "Device"
>>       Identifier      "Generic Video Card"
>>       Driver          "ati"
>>
>>       Option "TwinView"
>>       Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
>>       Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
>>       Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, NULL; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480,
>>640x480"
>>       Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
>>       Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
>>       Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>>       Option "TVStandard" "NTSC"
>>       Option "TVOutput" "NTSC-M"
>>EndSection
>>
>>Does anyone know if the tv out is supported on this video card an if so, how
>>to get it working??
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