Radeon 9000 TV Out

Normie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

(Should this be in Multimedia or Hardware, or...? I have no idea, and I ain't multi posting, so here it goes.

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Just got an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro today (yay!), and I finally got X working with the binary, closed-source ATI drivers (not-so-yay). I've got my old Goldstar TVplugged into the SVideo->Composite dangle thingy so I have a bigger (if definitely not prettier) screen for games and stuff. The TV shows the picture just fine at the CLI, but once X starts, the TV screen gets warbly and weird (I can see vestiges of my desktop, but it's very distorted). Anyone know what this might be?

-Normie, who has the sense that it's something obvious but isn't too sure what.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

Moved from OTG.

As for Hardware vs. Multimedia, its probably a judgement call. Had you put it in Multimedia, I doubt it would have been moved.
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delta407 · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 5:41 pm Post subject:

This happens when the card is producing S-Video signal and the adapter is in use. You have to tell it to use composite (RCA), otherwise it gets all confused. I don't know how to do that with the ATi drivers, but that's what you need to do.

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Normie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

I suppose, but you're right, I haven't the faintest idea how to do that.

Incidentally, it works fine in Windows in damn near all resolutions and refresh rates.

(Hmm, could it be a refresh rate thing?)
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zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Anything new on that subject ? I' m interrested on buying a 9000 (sapphire 9000 -not pro) myself and want know about tv-out since I use it all the time for dvd/divx viewing on my 24'' tv.
Also how does it perform on games ? Is it worth to replace my gf2mx400 with it ?

.:: zen ::.

Normie · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

klaricmn · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Saint Louis

does anyone have a working XF86Config file for the Radeon 9000 Pro that takes advantage of the tv output features? I've been trying a few things to get it working but I don't seem to be able to do it.

thanks
matt klaric

jperleryd · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 4:21 am Post subject:

There are soooo many threads about tv-out and radeon. And most points to atitvout which is not updated anymore and gatos which does not have any releaed drivers for 4.3.

Anyone got a short howto what needs to be done to get DVDs via s-video working.

I have Xfree4.3 setup (1800fps) with the ati-drivers working fine (only got 300-400 with xfree-drm) but am not sure what I need to do to get the s-video output to works

Thanks
Jonas

djoi · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 49

You can try this :
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/

I bought a Radeon 7000 for my HTPC and after 2 month
(with bad results

) i must say , ATI + TV-Out is a bad choice for Linux (imho) or in other words "they suck" hehe
Next time i get a Matrox again.

bye

majo · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 1

TV-out works with the latest ati-drivers in portage, 3.2.4

I have only tried it using Dual Head (2 drivers) mode. Had no problem getting it to work, just using fglrxconfig (now located in /opt/ati/bin). The desktop on the TV is not quite centered though, not sure how to move it around. There seems to be a few settings related to that in the XF86Config-4, but I haven't had time to test it thoroughly yet. I'm using 1024x768 on the TV with NTSC-M and 1280x1024 on my CRT.

bushwakko · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 495

Please post your XF86Config with TVout working on the 3.2.4 drivers please! :)
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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 5:49 am Post subject:

TV-out on ATI cards under Linux is a mess. If you want TV-out, you better get an NVidia instead.

bushwakko · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 495

thats true, but since i have a chip integrated on my laptop, it's not an option. however, the new ati-binary's have recently gotten support for it. I can get the TV-out part to start, as in get stuff on my TV. but it's garbeled up as if i'm running to high HZ, but it isn't the problem since i've tried running everything from 50 to 100hz..Anyone have any success story's on the part. this is of course on my laptop which specs I've included in my sign.

by the way, how do you guys get your config files into this forum. cut'n'paste is a bit dodgy for me.
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neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

wrap em in code tags (on top of new post).

and /me 'd love to get a working xf86config with tvout aswell. I'v been thinking about playing with it myself, but the tv is in another room, so I have to keep going back and forth to check if it's working

bushwakko · Guru Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 495

yes, but I mean how do you guys paste it in. you obviously can't select all the text with the mouse while on a console/terminal. and selecting them in a X-based text-viewer and copypasting is buggy, I don't get everything ...:([/quote]
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neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

nedit/gedit/any X editor.
if you have tvout working you have X working

then just drag over the entire thing and paste it in your browser