Subject: Re: ATI TV-OUT support ?
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
List: tech-x11
Date: 12/02/2007 12:45:17
>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in using TV-out with an ATI driver ?
>> If so, which software is recommended (NetBSD version and XFree/Xorg) ?
>> And what are the magical X.conf parameters ?
>
> For ATI TV-out, you want to be using xf86-video-ati from upstream, or
> maybe one of their recent release candidates  (6.7.195 or newer). Then
> it should be automatically configured, or configurable at runtime with
> xrandr.
>

Thanks Eric.
I've just tried wip/xf86-video-ati (6.7.191) and it works OK :-)
I've also been googled to http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
which explains very well how to handle TV-out.

Regards,
   Jo