Re: TvOut on ATI Rage TvOut on Ati Rage Mobility P/M

On Dec 16, 2007 4:20 AM, Edwin de Caluwé <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for clearing this up. Is the way the atitvout too (which is GPL by
> the way) enables / disables connections, with vbe calls I believe,  on this
> mach64 card really that different from how a radeon driver does it ? Anyway
> I am just curious and I don't know a lot about this.
>

The radeon driver programs the HW directly rather than via vbe calls.

Alex

> Thanks for your reply,
> Edwin
>
> On Dec 16, 2007 1:35 AM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2007 5:17 PM, Edwin de Caluwé <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I am not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but I hope so.
> > >
> > > On an old machine of mine I recently tried to enable Tv Out.
> > >
> > > The graphics cars is an Ati Rage Mobility P/M (Mach 64).
> > >
> > > The dri wiki
> > > ( http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATI)
> > > mentions that the old GATOS project for tv out is incorporated into the
> > > X.org drivers. A long time ago I had once used this same GATOS to get
> the TV
> > > out working in linux.
> > >
> > > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonTV
> > > Describes that the minimum driver version required is 6.7.191. I am
> running
> > > 6.7.195 shipped with Ubuntu 7.10. This should be sufficient.
> > >
> > > Futhermore randr 1.2 is required. This is also the version I am running.
> > >
> > > I tried to enable tvout using xrandr. However xrandr does not recognize
> the
> > > attached S-video connector. According to the wiki this should work but
> it
> > > does not.
> > >
> > > I managed to work around this with the (very old) atitvout utility to
> > > enable/disable lcd,crt and tv connections. This works, however even when
> tv
> > > out is enabled using atitvout, randr still does not recognize the
> > > connection.
> > >
> > > Is this a known problem in randr + x.org driver? How can i get tv out
> and
> > > secondary display working with randr ?
> >
> > The Rage Mobility P/M is mach64 based.  Only the radeon driver has
> > xrandr 1.2 support.  The "ati" driver is actually just a wrapper that
> > loads the appropriate real driver depending on what card is detected:
> > ati_misc, r128, or radeon.  GATOS only supported TV-out on radeon chip
> > as well.  for your chip you can try the following options to enable
> > tv-out, but YMMV.
> > Option "tv_out" "true"
> > Option "tv_standard" "NTSC" or "PAL", etc.
> >
> > Alex
> >
>
>

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