[ltp] Thinkpad & TV out -- any success?

Vivek linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:46:57 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Tilmann Singer wrote:

> It's been a year or so last time I tried, so I only remember
> vaguely. It worked with the gatos drivers, but the caveat was that the
> video out needed to be plugged in and (I think) the receiving TV box
> needed to be switched on while booting the thinkpad.
>
> That was on an A20p with ATI Rage Mobility 128.

Debian woody xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-16woody1, no funky gatos stuff that
I can recall, TV needs to be plugged into the S-Video out while booting,
sudo atitvout -f t activates the TV display. A20p as noted.