Re: [newbie] TV out with ATI Radeon 7000

[Joe]

Raffaele Belardi wrote:

I have an ATI Radeon 7000 with TV out connector. If I connect the TV 
and boot the PC, the video card puts itself in a sort of 
'TV-compatible' mode (i.e. it uses 50Hz horizontal refresh rate to 
avoid burning the TV), so during the boot I see the MDK logo and 
writings on TV.

The problem is that, with the 50Hz rate, X refuses to start with the 
message "Cannot find suitable screen".

I saw in the XF86Config file that there is already a modeline suitable 
for TV-out, but how do I enable it?

thanks,

raffaele

I also had this card. The only way I could get tv out working under X 
was to change to the frambuffer driver (radeon FBDEV if i rememer 
correctly),  and use 800x600 resolution. Unfortunately  XV  didn't seem 
to work with this driver so i could not watch movies full screen without 
dropped frames. I think the GATOS project might be able to make tv out 
work properly using the ATI.2 driver, google for it. Never got it to 
work properly before I sold the card. Hope this helps.

Joe.


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