Re: Linux Ati TV Out on Laptop

David Gibbons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm having a similiar fun time with my nvidia card,
The screen looks "okay" but it's in black and white, i don't know if 
that's a misconfiguration though or some quirk of my setup (svideo out 
with a Rca (or component??) adapter to a rca in on the old tv i'm 
running it to..

Robby Russell wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 18:06, Adam Browning wrote:
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>>Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Inspiron 600m and I'm trying to 
>>get the TV out to work.  When I installed the closed-source ATi drivers 
>>and configured them, one of the options was to enable TV out, which I 
>>did and selected the Clone Mode.  Well, I configured the sync rates for 
>>my primary monitor (the LCD on the laptop) and then it asked me to 
>>configure the sync rates on the second monitor (the TV out signal).  I 
>>can't figure out what values I should put in for the Vsync and Hsync to 
>>get it to work correctly.  The image on my TV is B&W and looks really 
>>nasty, like I"m going to damage it or something if I keep it running on 
>>there.  Does anyone know what the Hsync and Vsync ranges should be for 
>>TV out?  Thanks in advance!
>>
>>Adam
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>I don't, but if you figure it out can you give me some info on what you
>did to get this to work? I tried to use a few things to get my tv out
>for my ATI Radeon and ATI Rage 128, but which have TVOUT, but haven't
>managed to get it to work.
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>Robby
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