[mythtv-users] ati frglx and composite video out
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Jan 28 16:58:03 UTC 2007
On 28/01/07, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I cannot get my radeon RV350 based card to output composite video.
>
> aticonfig suggested:
>
> Option "TVFormat" "PAL-B"
> Option "TVStandard" "VIDEO"
> Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
> Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
> Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
> Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
> Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
> Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
> Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
> Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"
> # === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
> Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
> Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
> # === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
> Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
> # === OpenGL Overlay ===
> Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
> # === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
> Option "CenterMode" "on"
> # === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
> Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
> Option "ForceMonitors" "tv"
> Option "EnableMonitor" "tv"
>
> The card worked fine into a PC monitor, but I had only one instance of
> tvout working (B&W, initial boot screen only) and I cant even get that
> back!
What is your MonitorLayout set to? In an old (FC2) working fglrx
config, I had mine set to
Option "MonitorLayout" "NONE, STV"
> Cables could also be part of the problem: what pinout does the ati use
> for composite from the svideo type plug?
If a 4 pin plug, pins 3 and 4 merged (mixing the luminance and
chrominance). If a 7 pin, then pin 6 can provdie a dedicated composite
video output. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-video.
Nick
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