[ltp] LCD/CRT/TVOUT switching on Radeon M6 LY

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:27:35 -0500


On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:18:12 +0100, Michal Trzcinski <jz@vanet.pl> wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 20 stycznia 2005 16:05, Tomek Jarzynka napisa=C5=82:
> TJ> Hi,
> TJ>
> TJ> has anyone had success with tvout or switching between LCD
> TJ> and CRT on Radeon M6 equipped laptops. For me, the VGA output
> TJ> seems to be always powered (and both console and X displays
> TJ> show up), but I can't disable it or make the external display
> TJ> the only one active (to switch to 1280x1024 for instance).
> TJ> And I can't get tv-out to work.
>=20
> Hello again,
>=20
> I have the same problem.
> What app/driver do you use for tv-out? What cable do you use? Svideo-Svid=
eo?
> With Windows XP it is working for me only with Svideo-Svideo cable (Think=
Pad R51, Radeon 7500 M7 LW). Other can't work like Euro-Svideo or RCA-Svide=
o. Cables are fine. Mayby my TV has a bug ;)
> On fglrx with Radeon 9200 tv-out works fine.
>=20

The Xorg radeon driver doesn't support tv-out yet.

Alex