Simon, please reply to the list (in case I write something really
brilliant...)

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:27:47AM -0400, Simon Meelich wrote:
> sorry for not getting back to you.....
> that's good news. i have a ATI Radeon Express 2000 onboard). Right now 
> my xorg.conf is pretty simple and only configured for one monitor (see 
> attached file). I tried to get it to work with aticonfig, but I just 
> couldn't do it.
> I got rid of the scrambled picture (it turned out to be a driver 
> problem). However I can only use one device (either LCD monitor or TV). 
> If I boot up my PC with the monitor pluged in, then it's the monitor. If 
> I boot up w/o my monitor pluged in, but with the TV pluged in, I get the 
> picture on TV.


that's sounds like its working properly. Are you trying to get a two
headed configuration? Does your card support using both outputs at once?
I kinda doubt it, but you'd have to research that. Otherwise, based on
what you've described (and without looking at your xorg.conf) I'd say
you've got it working properly.

A

> 
> thanks again
> 
> simon
> 
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:37:45 -0400
> >Simon Meelich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Hi everyone,
> >>
> >>does anybody have experience with Debian and TV out and/or MythTV? I'd 
> >>like to set this up on my newly installed Etch. Unfortunately I can't 
> >>get the TV out to work properly. The picture is pretty much scrambled....
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >>    
> >
> >what does you're Xorg.conf (or XF86COnfig.4) look like? what video card? 
> >how is it scrambled? etc etc etc. I"ve got beautiful TV-out from my ASUS 
> >GeForce video and have also gotten great tv-out from a hauppauge pvr 350, 
> >so I know its do-able.
> >
> >A
> >
> >  
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Kind regards,
> >>
> >>Simon Meelich
> >>
> >>
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> 

> 
> # xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file)
> #
> # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
> # values from the debconf database.
> #
> # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
> # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
> #
> # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
> # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
> # package.
> #
> # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
> # again, run the following commands as root:
> #
> #   cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom
> #   md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >/var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum
> #   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>       Identifier     "Default Layout"
>       Screen      0  "aticonfig Screen 0" 0 0
>       InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
>       InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
>                       # local font server
>       # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
>       FontPath     "unix/:7100"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
>       FontPath     "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>       Load  "bitmap"
>       Load  "dbe"
>       Load  "ddc"
>       Load  "dri"
>       Load  "evdev"
>       Load  "extmod"
>       Load  "freetype"
>       Load  "glx"
>       Load  "int10"
>       Load  "record"
>       Load  "type1"
>       Load  "vbe"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
>       Driver      "keyboard"
>       Option      "CoreKeyboard"
>       Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
>       Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
>       Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>       Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
>       Driver      "mouse"
>       Option      "CorePointer"
>       Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>       Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
>       Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
>       Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier   "SyncMaster"
>       HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
>       VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
>       Option      "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier   "aticonfig Monitor 0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier  "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200 (RC410)"
>       Driver      "ati"
>       BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
>       Driver      "fglrx"
>       BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier "Default Screen"
>       Device     "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Xpress 200 (RC410)"
>       Monitor    "SyncMaster"
>       DefaultDepth     24
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     1
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     4
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     8
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     15
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     16
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Depth     24
>               Modes    "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" 
> "720x400" "640x480"
>       EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier "aticonfig Screen 0"
>       Device     "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
>       Monitor    "aticonfig Monitor 0"
>       DefaultDepth     24
>       SubSection "Display"
>               Viewport   0 0
>               Depth     24
>       EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
>       Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 

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