Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Mark Knecht writes:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
> wrote:

>    I have a couple of old Asus Pundit-R machines that I use for MythTV
> frontends which had the same sort of problems - a specific ATI VGA
> 9100 IGP design built into the chipset and I needed TVout to drive the
> TVs. I was stuck with very old kernels and an old ATI fglrx driver
> made even more difficult as the Gentoo maintainers dropped everything
> I was using from portage and I had to build my own overlays. It was a
> mess.

At least that makes me feel not so alone :)

>    I did recently manage to get things running with new software and
> the Open Source radeon driver. Maybe some of this will help you and
> your friend. Feel free to contact me off-list if you need to.

Thanks for the offer!

>    A couple of things to note:
> 
> 1) I've never done any hal specific modifications on any of my machines.

Neither did I. I have it enabled now, while at first I had trouble and 
compiled xorg-server without support for it. My keyboard and mouse are still 
configured in xorg.conf, because I want the german layout and activate a 
composite key, and I do not want to learn how to configure this the HAL way 
(seems like HAL is in the process of being dropped anyway).

> 2) You must choose an 800x600 default resolution for the Open Source
> TVout logic to work as that's the only one they implemented.
> 3) If it matters my TVout is S-video

Thanks for the information. However, I did not try anything with TV-out yet, 
since I do not get any output on the primary screen. Did you also have 
trouble with that?


> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "** ATI Radeon (generic)               [radeon]"
>     Driver      "radeon"
>     Option      "ForceTVOut" "on"
>     Option      "TVDACLoadDetect" "TRUE"
>     Option      "TVStandard" "ntsc"
>     Option      "monitor-S-video" "TV-monitor"
> EndSection

Great, I will need those once I get the primary display to work.

	Wonko