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gkal

Member

From: Athens-Greece

Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 38

some help with TV-OUT

Hi,

I have an ATI 9800pro and the open source ati drivers installed. I use the following xrandr commands to get the picture on my TV through the S-Video output

# xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
# xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600
# xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard pal

This works ok but I get only a piece of my screen on TV (lets say the top left quadrant). My lcd monitor is connected to DVI and the resolution is 1280x1024.

I haven't touched my xorg.conf file. Can anyone help/guide me a little on how to fix this?

Also, I don't know why but the xrandr -q gives me:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1200
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
   1280x1024      60.0*+   59.9
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.3
   640x480        60.0
   720x400        70.1
S-video disconnected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600        60.3*

... but the S-Video is connected and working.

Finally, I'm using the command

xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1

to set the Xv overlay from monitor to TV so I can watch videos. Is there a way to have it on both so there's no need for this command?

Thanks

Mikko777

Member

From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: some help with TV-OUT

Well, what i've found out is that if you care for tv-out fglrx driver is the only way to go.

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gkal

Member

From: Athens-Greece

Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 38

Re: some help with TV-OUT

I'll try fglrx if no solution is found.

I also checked out the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI  but unfortunately I have the same problem.

Wrong size of picture on my TV. Any ideas?

scj

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 158

Re: some help with TV-OUT

I'm stuck on a card that isn't supported by fglrx. Am I out of luck trying to get tv-out with color on a pal screen?