[ltp] Using TV out on a T42p

[Emmanuel SCHRODER]

Alex Deucher wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:08:07 +0100, Marc MERLIN <marc_ltp@merlins.org> wrote:
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>
>>Hi,
>>
>>So, I've done a fair amount of reading on the subject, including this
>>list's archives.
>>
>>What I found so far, as that I can use atitvout t to get a text console
>>displayed on the TV screen
>>After that, I can actually use mplayer -vo vesa to play video.
>>Except that it requires an NTSC set, since atitvout pal won't work for
>>me (bad VBE call)
>>
>>Has anyone had luck running an X server in vesa mode at that point to
>>get X on the TV output? (if so, would you mind sending me your
>>XF86Config/xorg.config separately?)
>>
>>Can this be done in addition to running a separate 1600x1200 accelerated
>>X server on my LCD? (i.e. run a separate TV only X server)
>>
>>Now, I've also had to switch from some XFree 4.4 cvs build that was the
>>only thing I could run at the time to get 1600x1200 working on that
>>(--) Chipset ATI FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT (AGP) found
>>
>>It had a few problems, like dodgy xv support, and would crash on 3d
>>apps, so I upgraded to X.org 6.8.1-0.4 (debian). This works great, but
>>I don't think it supports TV out.
>>
>>So, if I understand correctly, my options are:
>>
>>- fglrx from ATI, except that:
>>  - it won't work with X.org 6.8.1 from what I hear
>>  - it doesn't support ACPI S3 and S4 (suspend to Ram and Disk) from
>>    what I read either.
>>  Is that still true?
>>
>>- http://gatos.sourceforge.net/theater_out.php
>>  No idea about this one. I'll try this next, although if it works or
>>  doesn't work for you, please let me know.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Marc
>>    
>>
>
>The open source beos radeon driver supports tv-out and the code could
>be ported to xorg, someone just has to do it.
>
>Alex
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>
According to ATI, a new version of ATI fglrx with X.org 6.8.1 should be 
released soon (before mid january).
I'm waiting for this new driver to make my PAL tvout and hardware 
acceleration work.

Ems.