On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:53, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: > > >This is a cool bug! > > > >I have ATI AiW 128 Pro 16 Mb card with TV-out. This is a Page 128 Pro PF > >chip, I belive. I get no output on display when I start xfree86 > >with TV plugged in. Everything works without TV. > > > >Let's be fair, switching to virtual console works and I can do work there, > >so it's not a complete freeze or crush - just no signal in graphics mode > >with TV in. > > > >Let's be fair once more, Windows 98 also behaves funny. Plugging in TV > >halves the refresh rate or something. Sort of, the card splits the signal > >into two outputs, to TV and to the monitor, but at least I get the signal. > >TV requires 800x600 at 60 Hz signal; without TV I get 120 Hz on the monitor > >at the same resolution. > > > >Mike, as far as Red Hat 8.0.94 goes, anaconda fails to recognize the card > >properly when the TV is plugged in. I recognizes it as Rage 128, instead of > >Rage 128 Pro. Then, graphical installation doesn't work, etc. Without > >TV everything works like a magic. > > Hmm. That is weird because our autodetection tools are keyed of > PCI ID. Every PCI ID has one driver assigned to it only, and > when that ID is detected, the driver name is looked up in > pcitable, and then the driver selection looked up in the Cards > database. > > I can't imagine why you would see Rage 128 one time and Rage 128 > Pro another time. Doesn't make much sense to me. One thing > though, is that the name is just cosmetic anyway. Any Rage 128 > anything chip, get's ultimately assigned to the "r128" driver, so > you can manually pick any random Rage128 chip instead of using > autodetection, and you'll end up with a possibly misnamed card > name in your config file, but with an otherwise identical > configuration. > > Your problem is indeed interesting though. Could you put logs > and configs somewhere to have a peek at. The logs might show > some clues. > > Thanks, > TTYL
I had exactly the same problem except I didn't tie the two things together, tv plugged in and lose of x. My previous old monitor showed a screen but it was really distorted like the the refresh rate had gone haywire. My new 17" monitor flashes up a dialog to say "refresh out of range, 25hz" or words to that effect. Tony _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
