[ltp] svideo / tv-out, T41, radeon 9000, FC5, Xorg 7.0.0

[Nate]

atitvout worked for s-video output after I changed to vesa drivers. 
However, the image is blurry, very viewable, but hard on the eyes. I 
think refresh rates my be wrong, but I cannot seem to change the refresh 
rates or X complains about no valid screens. My guess is that the tv 
gets the same refresh settings as whatever device is being displayed 
before atitvout is run, but that's a guess. Below is the section of 
xorg.conf I'm making changes to.

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier      "TV Monitor"
  HorizSync   30.0 - 40.0
  VertRefresh   60
  #Modeline "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
  Modeline "640x480" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
EndSection


Nate wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Has anyone with a similar configuration gotten s-video output to work? 
> The wiki 
> (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_TV-Out_working_on_ATI_graphic_cards) 
> says to use the GATOS (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and 
> http://megahurts.dk/rune/tv_output.html) driver. However, I'm missing 
> the some requirements, according to the configure script, as shown at 
> http://volvosmith.net/data/Xserverconfig/svidout.txt . I cannot find 
> the xorg-server in the yum repositories. I'm also pretty afraid of 
> just trying things, because I wouldn't know how to undo very easily.
>
> I'm also going to try switching to vesa driver and using the atitvout 
> utility.
>
> As an aside, I may pick another distro and install it such that I have 
> a place to play around. Any suggestions for a distro that might play 
> nicely with tv-out?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan