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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
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>
>> 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?
>

The machine is hooked to the TV so I did all my debugging using the TV
and never used a normal monitor at all. On these machine I have to
choose a specific output - TV or monitor - in BIOS. My experience with
these Asus machines is the Phoenix BIOS didn't do a good job of
auto-selecting which output to use and I didn't want to confuse things
as my needs are TV only. I think I tried a monitor once, probably got
a blank screen, and then gave up and just used the TV from there on.

In your friend's case, if she's using a monitor sometimes and a TV
sometimes, then that's beyond my experience on these boxes and you are
unfortunately more on your own. I know the machine will drive a
monitor - I have a 3rd that I use that way - but I've not had luck
getting it to switch back and forth on command, although I haven't
tried very hard.

Good luck,
Mark