Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Mobility TV-OUT

[Donnie Berkholz]

Grant wrote:
> I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It
> has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all
> kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go.
>
> I'm using the "ati" driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos
> driver might be better. I haven't even turned this laptop on in quite
> a while so it's running a lot of old stuff. Should I update x11-xorg
> to 7.0 and use a particular VIDEO_CARD flag and see if that works? How
> should my xorg.conf look?

TV-out is probably one of the worst-supported things in X right now.
There is no "official" X.Org driver that supports it. The gatos driver
purports to, although it may not work with 7.1. Also I think someone
posted a patch to the xorg list a few months ago to add it to the ati
driver.

If you're able to use the binary drivers with your card, you may have
better luck there.

Thanks,
Donnie