[ltp] atitvout detecting tv - interesting finding

[Konstantin Filtschew]

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hi,

I've updated to gentoo and x.org Now I can't use tv-out anymore on
my T40.

How are your stepts to get tv-out working?

Do you use x.org or xfree?

Greetz

Konstantin


On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:54:26 +0100
Nick Bower <nick@nickbower.com> wrote:

> I noticed on the weekend when getting a TV to work with my T42 (just
the
> Radeon7500) that doing a radeontool off then on with the TV connected
> somehow allowed me to detect the connected TV without a sleep or
reboot.
>=20
> In other words, doing a atitvout detect only showed the laptop's panel
> with the TV connected at first (as expected), but then doing
radeontool
> off/on (I have this configured for the lid's acpi event so discovered
it
> by accident), the same atitvout detect command then showed the TV.  I
> repeated this twice to verify and I report it here because I believe
> that the current thinking on this subject requires the laptop to
> hibernate or power-down/up to detect an attached TV.
>=20
> nick
>=20
> --=20
> Nick Bower <nick@nickbower.com>


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