Multimedia :: TV Out

Quote (curaga @ July 17 2007,14:47)

You need to edit XF86Config-4, those are just examples, not guarantee to work... For normal usage.

-- You cannot get tv-out! Not with DSL that is. Ati's Linux drivers suck. They have really bad performance, crash often, and lack features just like tv-out..

If you want tv-out for watching video, your best bet is Geexbox 1.1. As it uses Vesa Bios by default, which forces tv-out on even on ati cards.. Not guaranteed to work, but like I said, it's the best bet.

curaga: Please stop making unfounded conclusions. Anyways, you contradicted yourself next by suggesting geexbox... ?

fluppet: It probably depends on what video chipset that is... I haven't found your laptop specs online (only different versions of the 9100). It might help if you paste out a `lspci -v` or your stats.txt from System Stats?

Okay. I'll found my conclusions.

I have Ati Rage, Ati Mach64 and Ati Radeon 9250. Only radeon has tv-out.
With the open source drivers performance is ok, but the advanced features such as fast 3d or video accel aren't in the driver. Then the official Ati driver; it only supported the radeon. Not to mention no tv-out; even the normal crt screen looked overlighted, nothing could be seen 'til I tuned the screen brightness to near zero.. The only setting in Ati Panel was gamma, I tried it to fix that overillumination, but that in turn made colors look wrong. Glxgears segfaulted with the official driver.

Do I need to tell more?

And I got a working tv-out with Geexbox..

I don't think I contradicted myself, as Geexbox doesn't use official Ati drivers. I'm not sure if the Mplayer extension has vesa and cvidix drivers included; if it has, video playing through tv-out may be possible in DSL too...
But even if so, it will be harder to set up than with geexbox..

I did mean in terms of tv-out, as the thread's subject is about. I just pointed out your absolute negative in its possibility. Note about your radeon using fglrx: I think older versions worked better with the r2xx... would also have tv-out. (r2xx has deprecated in official support)

I used the last version supporting 9250. It still was for an older kernel & older X, which probably caused some of my crashes..

It's an ATI 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133

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