[gentoo-user] Somewhat OT - Grandtech PC to TV component and X

[gentoo-user] Somewhat OT - Grandtech PC to TV component and X

[Michael Sullivan]

I recently bought a new Gradtec PC To TV component because my old Grand
Pro Ultimate XP that I bought in 2004 was on its last legs.  We used the
Ultimate XP so that we could use the living room TV as a monitor, so
that we could watch MythTV in the living room.  The Ultimate XP was
having a problem where after I logged into X the video would go all
screwy; it was all static-y and the top half of the video output would
appear at the top half of the screen and again at the bottom half.  I
dragged a real monitor in there and attached it to the end of the
external monitor plug on the component and everything displayed normally
on the monitor, but still screwy on the TV.  I bought a new component
and it's doing the same thing.  But it only does it in X.  This setup
worked fine until about a month ago.  I'm completely at a loss as to how
to fix this.  Here's my search for errors in /etc/Xorg.0.log:


carter log # grep EE Xorg.0.log
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    42.372] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER


Does anyone have any idea of what's going on?  It only happens in X;
it's fine until X loads...
-Michael Sullivan-

[gentoo-user] Re: Somewhat OT - Grandtech PC to TV component and X [SOLVED]

[Michael Sullivan]

On 02/29/12 16:41, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I recently bought a new Gradtec PC To TV component because my old Grand
> Pro Ultimate XP that I bought in 2004 was on its last legs.  We used the
> Ultimate XP so that we could use the living room TV as a monitor, so
> that we could watch MythTV in the living room.  The Ultimate XP was
> having a problem where after I logged into X the video would go all
> screwy; it was all static-y and the top half of the video output would
> appear at the top half of the screen and again at the bottom half.  I
> dragged a real monitor in there and attached it to the end of the
> external monitor plug on the component and everything displayed normally
> on the monitor, but still screwy on the TV.  I bought a new component
> and it's doing the same thing.  But it only does it in X.  This setup
> worked fine until about a month ago.  I'm completely at a loss as to how
> to fix this.  Here's my search for errors in /etc/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> 
> carter log # grep EE Xorg.0.log
> 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> [    42.372] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of what's going on?  It only happens in X;
> it's fine until X loads...
> -Michael Sullivan-

I read on Google how one user was having trouble getting X to work with
her new monitor.  Another user suggested renaming xorg.conf (so it no
longer existed under that name.)  I tried it, and it worked.