[ltp] Confusion about Xorg drivers

[John Locke]

Thanks for your replies...

On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 19:26 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:

> The most full-featured driver available for radeon is the xorg radeon
> driver in cvs.  the xorg 6.8.x radeon driver is pretty good as well,
> but is missing some of the latest tweaks.  TV out is not currently
> supported on radeon (although there are some hacks available). pretty
> much everything else you are looking to accomplish can be handled by
> the current xorg radeon driver.
> 
Okay, so this is the one called "radeon"? Mandrake seems to install
"fglrx" by default--I'm assuming this is the ATI-written driver? What is
"fbdev"?

Can someone point me to a writeup of a TV hack that might work? I did
get atitvout to detect the TV when I booted with the tv connected, but
otherwise it doesn't seem to detect it at all, and it couldn't find the
proper device in xorg.conf to actually use it (or at least that's my
assumption)...

Thanks,

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John Locke
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