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

[Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@gmail.com>]

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.