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