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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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gatos - how to enable s-video output for ATI

i need to make s-video work on my laptop (want to connect laptop to big screen to present things - unfortunately this screen has no VGA but s-video)

in [extra] there is atitvout that should do this and also do so on my old computer (ATI mach64 chipset)

atitvout does not work on my thinkpad a31p - it does not recognize the card correctly and fails. for x.org i use the radeon driver and this works fine. it's a ATI FireGL 7800 that works fine with the "RV200" driver. but "radeon" does not have s-video output as far i know - no options how to enable s-video-out

after a long search on the internet, reading that most users that have my laptop never tried to make s-video work, i found GATOS:

under:
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php
there is a module that, if i understand it correctly, should make s-video work

what i don't know:

- how do you build this driver?
- how do you use it?
(anyone able to make a pkg work with newest xorg?)

nowhere documented is how to use it with xorg >6.8.0

anyone can help me?

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: gatos - how to enable s-video output for ATI

nobody?

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sigSEGV

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Registered: 2005-03-31

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Re: gatos - how to enable s-video output for ATI

On my Sony laptop atitvout only works for me when I switch to a non X virtual console, run the atitvout command, and switch back to X.  Don't know if that helps or not.

JoyFM

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From: potsdam

Registered: 2007-01-03

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Re: gatos - how to enable s-video output for ATI

atitvout just works with the vesa driver ...

and try the option "atitvout -f t" (and remember to put the tv connected before booting)

but the gatos drivers would be much better