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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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> > 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 |
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