From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N1Kpf-00059O-3v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08251E0975; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C77E0975 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1Kpc-0005Mc-C5 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:09:28 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:09:26 +0200 id 00011B87.4AE1B916.00007FB6 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI X trouble, again Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:09:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <200910231415.25058.wonko@wonkology.org> <5bdc1c8b0910230646q6055adabj24c7635a40f1b7bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0910230646q6055adabj24c7635a40f1b7bc@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910231609.24028.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 6f666a11-aeef-49b0-bfd6-36090400078f X-Archives-Hash: 71757374378f65eefb8e6375bf8b2c95 Mark Knecht writes: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Alex Schuster > 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