Hello,

> > Well, Sun's low-end PCI framebuffer (PGX32 or so) /is/ an ATi device (a Mach64 or an early Rage), so in theory there could be
> > cards with TVout. 
> 
> under supported hardware in the INSTALL doc:
> 
>   Video devices
>     - All on-board frame buffers
>       Unless otherwise specified, only text console is supported
>     - On-board and SBUS card (GX, GX+, TGX, TGX+) (cgsix)
>       8 bpp accelerated framebuffer. 
> 
> that didn't give me much faith.  ;)
That's Xsun, isn't it?

> so, to use the S-Video Out, i need to run XFree?
Almost certainly, I highly doubt that Xsun will know anything about TVout.

have fun
Michael