[gentoo-user] ATI driver, tvout, blue video window

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

I have installed gentoo on a gateway laptop, with an ATI mobility 9000
radeon video adaptor.  Once I have xorg installed, and ati-drivers
(proprietary), tvout was pretty easy to set up using ati's setup
utility, fglrxconfig and a couple of easy changes to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

However, I am having trouble trying to show my classes a dvd, because
on the TV, the video frame is completely solidly dark blue.

Preliminary investigation suggests this may be related to "xv".  I
don't understand this, and my attempts to edit some parameters in
xorg.conf have failed.   I followed an instruction on one of the
howtos or faqs to not enable dri in the kernel.

Where can I find a relatively understandable explantion of this
effect?  I saw a similar behavior with xinerama and a Matrox G450 with
two heads: one head didn't show the graphics in the frame in some
cases.

Thanks!

Alan Davis

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