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On 9/3/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop with an ATI Mobility video card. It |
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> > > has an S-video TV-out port that I can't get working. I've read all |
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> > > kinds of stuff about it online, but I'm unsure which way to go. |
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> > > |
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> > > I'm using the "ati" driver right now but I've read that the ati-gatos |
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> > > driver might be better. I haven't even turned this laptop on in quite |
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> > > a while so it's running a lot of old stuff. Should I update x11-xorg |
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> > > to 7.0 and use a particular VIDEO_CARD flag and see if that works? How |
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> > > should my xorg.conf look? |
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> > TV-out is probably one of the worst-supported things in X right now. |
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> > There is no "official" X.Org driver that supports it. The gatos driver |
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> > purports to, although it may not work with 7.1. Also I think someone |
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> > posted a patch to the xorg list a few months ago to add it to the ati |
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> > driver. |
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> > If you're able to use the binary drivers with your card, you may have |
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> > better luck there. |
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> I'm running out of steam on this for now, but this seems to be the key |
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> component: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127642 |
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> it's a patch for xorg 7.0 to enable TV-out with the ati driver. The |
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> old laptop I'm trying to set this up on needs some of work before it's |
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> up to speed and I can test this. |
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Grant - Here's where I got to today: |
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1) My machines use the ATI 9100 IGP chipset. No 3D accel. The machines |
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have both composite video and S-Video outputs. |
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2) Back under 2.6.16 I used ati-drivers-8.14.x. I had to patch the |
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drivers by hand. That was painful but well documented on one of the |
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online forums. |
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3) The 8.14 driver is no longer in portage and apparently doesn't work |
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with the 2.6.17 kernels. |
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4) I got 8.28.8 working today using the following extra line in the |
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aticonfig-Device[0] section created by aticonfig: |
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Option "ForceMonitors" "nocrt1,nocrt2,tv" |
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5) What I found was that during the boot I get text on both the |
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composite video and S-Video outputs. However, when X starts the |
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graphic output is only on the S-Video output. This is different than |
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the older driver where X was available on both. |
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6) All of that said I've now got both Pundit-R's working. However the |
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video quality is far worse than the previous driver. It appears that |
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I'm getting just a few frames of video every second. Video from MythTV |
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is very jerky and seems to 'tear' a bit. |
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7) Note that this doesn't seem to be nearly as bad when I configure |
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the machines to use the CRT output. I'm going to investigatge buying |
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some sort of VGA->S-Video or Composite video converter. That may work |
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better and not require all this crazy work. |
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All in all, very disappointing. I understand the Gentoo devs had |
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their hands tied on a lot of this stuff but it's disappointing to have |
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working drivers get dropped from portage or the driver developers at |
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ATI not continue to move features forward. Or maybe it's still me and |
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my lack of real configuration knowledge. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |
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