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DeepThoughts

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From: Norther part of Sweden (Piteå)

Registered: 2006-04-11

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TV-out with radeon-driver?

Hi!

I have an nVidia card and I have TV-out working using separet screens. For me this is a great solution and I wonder if this is possible with a Radeon 9600 using the radeon-driver?

A friend of mine is wondering if he can get his TV-out working and he has a Radeon 9600 and he's using the open source radeon-driver.

I've searched but there doesn't seem to be much info availible. Basicly: Is this possible? How? Is gatos required?

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Stefan Nitsche
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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

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Re: TV-out with radeon-driver?

late answer.. but better than never. i only answer, cause i myself searched for ages to find a working solution.

I am using the radeon driver with my radeon 9250 card and never got TV-Out working at all. There are patches for this driver that allow TV-Out to be used as soon as you switch to 800x600, which sounds like a good solution. Anyway, those patches from http://gatos.sf.net do not work with latest xorg (or at least i didnt manage to patch it). using an older version of the radeon driver (which patches alright) also doesnt work, as X simply refuses to start afterwards.

So right now i do the following: If i want to watch a film on my TV, i end X, edit the xorg.conf by changing 'radeon' to 'vesa' and (as root) use atitvout (from repos). In my case i use 'atitvout ct pal'.
When i start X now, my monitor is blank and i have picture on my TV.

Its not a dream solution, but it works. Of course you dont have any 2D acceleration (and definately no 3d) using the vesa driver, so this really must be concidered semi-optimal.

I really wonder why those gatos patches are not applied to official org. For me TV-Out was always a must when buying a graphic adapter and not being able to use it properly is really crap.

By the way, using the official (old) fglrx drivers is no option for me. 1st TV-Out doesnt work properly (ironically), as it makes my monitor screen absolutely unusable (looks like 400x gamma).
2nd that old driver simply wont do it with latest xorg.

So i guess the both of us have to get a new gfx card...

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