Has anyone been able to get sysutils/atitvout to switch on the tv
mode (or do much of anything) with a Radeon 7500? If so, how?

NetBSD 1.6ZG (APMVIA) #0: Mon Dec 22 15:54:14 CST 2003
...
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: ATI Technologies Radeon 7500 (rev. 0x00)

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r vbe' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
VBE Version: 2.0
VBE OEM Identification: ATI RV200
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 0. Please wait 3 seconds.

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r tvout' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
VBE call failed.
Maybe this command is not supported by your graphics adapter?
Did your parameters (if you specified some) really make sense?
Please try all other available commands before complaining!
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 7. Please wait 3 seconds.

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r standard' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
VBE call failed.
Maybe this command is not supported by your graphics adapter?
Did your parameters (if you specified some) really make sense?
Please try all other available commands before complaining!
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 8. Please wait 3 seconds.

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r c' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 0. Please wait 3 seconds.

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r t' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
VBE call failed.
Maybe this command is not supported by your graphics adapter?
Did your parameters (if you specified some) really make sense?
Please try all other available commands before complaining!
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 11. Please wait 3 seconds.

TEST: Running 'atitvout -r ct' ...
Forcing Radeon/Rage 128 mode
TEST: ... finished. Return value is 0. Please wait 3 seconds.