Difference between revisions of "TV-Out and OpenGL with ATI 9000/9100 IGP"

Revision as of 10:02, 14 March 2006

Information about this has been found at:

http://megahurts.dk/rune/tv_output.html

Mini-howto:

1. author: Eran Tromer
2. Grab a X.org CVS release from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/ :

wget http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R6.9.0/src-single/X11R6.9.0-src.tar.bz2

1. Or grab a X.org CVS snapshot from http://xorg.freedesktop.org/snapshots :

1. Grab a matching patch from http://megahurts.dk/rune/tv_output.html :

wget http://megahurts.dk/rune/stuff/xorg_CVS-20050420-tv_output.patch.gz

1. Extract, patch and compile:

tar xjvf xorg-x11-6.8.99.4.tar.bz2 gunzip -c xorg_CVS-20050420-tv_output.patch.gz | patch -p1 -d xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati mkdir xc-build cd xc-build lndir ../xc make World

1. For Red Hat / Fedora Core users
2. Remove your current X.org installation (Expect RPM dependency hell.)

rpm -e xorg-x11

1. Install:

make install

1. Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf according to
2. ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/README.out :
3. * Set the resolution to 800x600
4. * In the "Device" section, add:

   Option "TVOutput" "PAL"     (or "NTSC", etc.)

1. Start X and rejoice.

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