[ltp] TV out using ATI binary drivers (fglrx) on a T41p

[Oliver Pajonk]

Tony Whitmore wrote:
>  Under Windows all I
> get is a black and white image on my TV, regardless of whether I use PAL 
> or NTSC (my TV can handle both).

At least this can be solved: it is a problem with most "older" TV sets 
that do not have a scart-port that uses both the Y and the C part of the 
TV signal created by the S-Video-TV out. The simplest solution would be 
to cut your cable and put the two signals (and the shielding of course) 
together. This is absolutely sufficient for my part, but on some better 
TV sets one may notice a slight loss in quality. The "corrent" solution 
would be a S-VHS <--> FBAS converter that is not completely trivial to 
build. Some companies offer commercial converters (like 
http://www.s-vid.de/, germany only, sorry), though these converters 
basically do the same as putting the two signals together using a 
resistor. Small scheme:


F ----------\
	    |
BAS ---------------------- FBAS


This is obviously _not_ a professional solution, but it works for me.

Oliver Pajonk

PS: A page that describes this a LOT better is this one: 
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/Rund%20um%20den%20PC/SVHS-FBAS-Konverter/ 


But: German only, sorry :(