I've managed to get my Radeon 8500 to work with YPbPr output under Windows. I did have a bit of trouble finding how to do it again, eventually found this thread on avsforum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=212199&page=1&pp=20
The picture quality is incomparable to s-video and the Windows driver only supports US HDTV standard output modes, while my TV also supports PAL type HDTV modes ie. 576p; hopefully this limitation will be gone if I can get this working with Xorg. It's worth noting that it does NOT work on all Radeon cards, specifically my 9200SE will not work in YPbPr mode. --- Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/6/05, Steven Newbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Not really. Ati hasn't released any information about setting up the > > > chip for component output. Perhaps you can dump the radeon registers > > > in windows and compare how that driver sets things up, or perhaps the > > > fglrx driver supports component out too and you could use the register > > > dump tools from the r300 project. > > > > > Hi again! I'm going to have a go at getting Windows working with component > out > > and get a register dump from it. Do you know where I could find a register > > dumper for Windows? > > I don't know off hand. > > >Or should I try compiling > > http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/hy0/radeon_dump.tgz > under > > Cygwin? Would that work? > > I've never tried. You can give it a shot and see what happens. I've got it to compile, however to to open /dev/mem I had to change it to open it RDONLY, I don't why that would be, this is a default install of WinXP so my user account is running as "Administrator". I've now come to another problem, cygwin/nt5.1 doesn't have a /proc/bus/pci so radeon_dump is segfaulting: $ ./radeon_dump Unknown card radeon_dump: ATI (null) BIOS Image start: ------------------- Segmentation fault (core dumped) I'm still looking for a native Win32 Radeon register dumper though I've not yet had any luck in that regard. Steve ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
