[ltp] no Tv-out on R30 yet

[Andrzej Wasowski]

Thanks for the pointers. I am very busy until monday so DVDs are out of 
question now, but I will try to find the Toshiba guy after that. Do you 
remember what video modes (resolution/depths) you have been able to 
watch on TV in windows? Unfortunately it has been some time now, since I 
deleted windows partition and have no way to check it.

andrzej

ZeiMoT wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>While browsing the not so unknown net in search for Tv-out support for
>my R30, I found this:
>
>http://www.tridentmicro.com/careers/engineering.html
>
>Woooha, Trident needs a developer to develop drivers for Win* .. and
>Linux. Further down the page there is something mentioned about Open GL
>driver development needs. Anyone on the list interested, and if so, please
>make a linux open gl driver for the blade chips :)
>
>About the trident chipset in the Thinkpad R30, there is no linux support.
>Trident claim that it is impossible for them to support notebook computers
>since the way the chip is integrated into notebooks may diff between
>brands  (and models). It seems like the Toshiba Satellite 1800 has got a
>Cyberblade Ai1 as well, I read it on a personal webpage (lost the link,
>sorry) that the owner had successfully used his tv-out on his toshiba in
>Linux. I bet there is still hope then.
>
>Oh, by the way, dualhead _works_ in R30 if you add an extra CRT.
>Just modify your XF86Config-4 according to the XFree Trident man page,
>even streching works in lower resolutions.
>Trident manpage for XFree 4.1.0:
>http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/trident.4.html
>
>
>  -=< ZeiMoT >=-
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