[ltp] Using TV out on a T42p

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:59:08 -0500, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:52:43 +0100, Marc MERLIN <marc_ltp@merlins.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:16:05PM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > > - 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.
> > >
> > > The open source beos radeon driver supports tv-out and the code could
> > > be ported to xorg, someone just has to do it.
> >
> > Cool, but isn't that what the gatos project does? Isn't that code in the
> > driver shown in the URL above?
> >
> 
> Gatos mostly dealt with video-in, but one of the branches had at least
> partial tv-out working.  That code however was experimental and never
> merged into xorg.  so either that code or the beos code needs to be
> merged.
> 

Also the tv-out has been built-in on mobility chips since the M1 and
I'm not sure how similar/different it is from the tv-out on desktop
chips.

Alex

> Alex
> 
> > Marc
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