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Mark Knecht writes: |
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> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
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> I have a couple of old Asus Pundit-R machines that I use for MythTV |
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> frontends which had the same sort of problems - a specific ATI VGA |
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> 9100 IGP design built into the chipset and I needed TVout to drive the |
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> TVs. I was stuck with very old kernels and an old ATI fglrx driver |
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> made even more difficult as the Gentoo maintainers dropped everything |
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> I was using from portage and I had to build my own overlays. It was a |
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> mess. |
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At least that makes me feel not so alone :) |
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> I did recently manage to get things running with new software and |
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> the Open Source radeon driver. Maybe some of this will help you and |
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> your friend. Feel free to contact me off-list if you need to. |
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Thanks for the offer! |
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> A couple of things to note: |
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> 1) I've never done any hal specific modifications on any of my machines. |
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Neither did I. I have it enabled now, while at first I had trouble and |
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compiled xorg-server without support for it. My keyboard and mouse are still |
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configured in xorg.conf, because I want the german layout and activate a |
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composite key, and I do not want to learn how to configure this the HAL way |
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(seems like HAL is in the process of being dropped anyway). |
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> 2) You must choose an 800x600 default resolution for the Open Source |
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> TVout logic to work as that's the only one they implemented. |
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> 3) If it matters my TVout is S-video |
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Thanks for the information. However, I did not try anything with TV-out yet, |
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since I do not get any output on the primary screen. Did you also have |
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trouble with that? |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]" |
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> Driver "radeon" |
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> Option "ForceTVOut" "on" |
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> Option "TVDACLoadDetect" "TRUE" |
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> Option "TVStandard" "ntsc" |
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> Option "monitor-S-video" "TV-monitor" |
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Great, I will need those once I get the primary display to work. |
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Wonko |