S-video not detected on X700-M with free driver??

florut · 2009-04-13 10:22:56

Hi,

I'm using last ati-radeon free drivers on a ATI X700 mobility and my S-Video output is not detected by xrandr.

flo ~ $ sudo pacman -Q | grep video-ati
xf86-video-ati 6.12.2-1
flo ~ $ sudo pacman -Q | grep xorg-server
xorg-server 1.6.0-3
xorg-server-utils 7.4-4

I only get my VGA output (see? no S-Video) :

flo ~ $ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1200
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1280x800 60.0*+
1280x720 59.9
1152x768 59.8
1024x768 59.9
800x600 59.9
640x480 59.4

flo ~ $ lspci -vvnn
[...]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) [1002:5653] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:11b2]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at fe9f0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fe9c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

Did I miss something in xorg config or in modules config or anywhat??
Thanks for help!

My xorg.conf is here.
My Xorg.0.log is here.

florut · 2009-04-21 19:34:53

up!

florut · 2009-05-13 18:14:11

any idea at least where else I could get some info/doc/experts about this ?

The Avatar of Time · 2009-06-30 05:48:35

I'm having the same problem as you. I posted another thread before finding this one. I can't seem to get any replies either.

I don't know if we're the only ones having this issue or if no one else is trying to use S-video or what. I really wish I could get mine fixed. I tried the xf86-video-ati-git from AUR but it didn't help.

The only difference with my problem is that xrandr also shows a DVI-0 at the bottom. I don't even have a DVI-0. I have a VGA-0 like you do. I wonder if xrandr is detecting the S-video as DVI for some reason? Though I've tried setting up DVI-0 as I would S-video but that doesn't work.

Have you solved this by any chance? If so I'd be interested to know how. Thanks and good luck.

***My card is an ATI X1200 series by the way.

Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2009-06-30 05:50:53)

florut · 2009-06-30 06:16:37

Hey, finally an answer
No, I do not have any idea about the problem. Searching in forums, I found that some peaople do not have that problem, but no idea why.
You're lucky to have a DVI-0 output.

Quest will be long and hard. (!?)

Last edited by florut (2009-06-30 06:17:17)

The Avatar of Time · 2009-06-30 06:26:14

The really odd thing is that the computer doesn't actually have a DVI output, but it shows up when using xrandr.

I've ran Arch with catalyst, Windows XP, and Vista and they all worked fine with the S-video so it's really a shame that the open source drivers won't detect it.

Best of luck to you, sorry I couldn't be any help.

florut · 2009-08-09 08:26:14

Hi again !
I just got a little idea that came from nowhere...

Could you (or anyone who gets an ATI card working with S-video output) give me the output of the following command :

$ hwdetect --show-video

It's maybe a problem with auto detection of modules... I could this way force the load of the right module. Thanks in advance !

Last edited by florut (2009-08-09 08:26:39)

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S-video not detected on X700-M with free driver??

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