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Ahh. this one's a bit nasty.

When I tried this initially, tvout would only work with the vesafb
driver (catch 22 there), but if you load x using the gatos drivers, it
tries to reset the video display to the monitor. Get the tvout utility
off of the gatos site and call a script to run it and switch back to
tvout once x starts.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net] On Behalf Of josephc
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 4:33 PM
To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] TV Out, Radeon AIW 7500


Hello,

I'm trying to setup a mythTV rig using RH8 and my AIW 7500.

I installed the gatos ati.2 drivers, and everything works fine with just
a
monitor, and TV-Out works fine until X tries to load. But after X kicks
in, nothing.

I think there may be an issue with the "Monitor" section of my
XF86config,
but all of my googling hasn't turned up and suggestions.

If anyone has any advice, it would be appreciated.

-joe




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josephc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to setup a mythTV rig using RH8 and my AIW 7500.
>
> I installed the gatos ati.2 drivers, and everything works fine with just a
> monitor, and TV-Out works fine until X tries to load. But after X kicks
> in, nothing.

Text VGA output works from the card from before any O/S loads.
To get Linux X11 output you need to compile ati.2 from the
abandoned "devel" branch of GATOS CVS and this may not work
for newer cards. The compiled or current CVS versions of ati.2
do not support tv-out.

Also, to save you another message about recording with your
AIW, no, GATOS drivers won't support the features needed to
use an AIW card as a capture device for MythTV.

-- bjm

i knew about the capture card. I bought a seperate TV card.

Do you have a link or list or quick steps for compiling the driver?

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Bruce Markey wrote:

> josephc wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a mythTV rig using RH8 and my AIW 7500.
> >
> > I installed the gatos ati.2 drivers, and everything works fine with just a
> > monitor, and TV-Out works fine until X tries to load. But after X kicks
> > in, nothing.
>
> Text VGA output works from the card from before any O/S loads.
> To get Linux X11 output you need to compile ati.2 from the
> abandoned "devel" branch of GATOS CVS and this may not work
> for newer cards. The compiled or current CVS versions of ati.2
> do not support tv-out.
>
> Also, to save you another message about recording with your
> AIW, no, GATOS drivers won't support the features needed to
> use an AIW card as a capture device for MythTV.
>
> -- bjm
>
>
>
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>

also, one more thing. are there any TV specific fields i should add to my
xf86config?

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Bruce Markey wrote:

> josephc wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a mythTV rig using RH8 and my AIW 7500.
> >
> > I installed the gatos ati.2 drivers, and everything works fine with just a
> > monitor, and TV-Out works fine until X tries to load. But after X kicks
> > in, nothing.
>
> Text VGA output works from the card from before any O/S loads.
> To get Linux X11 output you need to compile ati.2 from the
> abandoned "devel" branch of GATOS CVS and this may not work
> for newer cards. The compiled or current CVS versions of ati.2
> do not support tv-out.
>
> Also, to save you another message about recording with your
> AIW, no, GATOS drivers won't support the features needed to
> use an AIW card as a capture device for MythTV.
>
> -- bjm
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

josephc wrote:
> i knew about the capture card. I bought a seperate TV card.
>
> Do you have a link or list or quick steps for compiling the driver?

http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php

Under "Adventurous setup" click the link in "Follow
instructions to install devel branch of ati.2".

-- bjm

josephc wrote:
> also, one more thing. are there any TV specific fields i should add to my
> xf86config?

I'd rather not encourage anyone to use these cards but I'm
stuck with a couple of them. You'd be better off getting a
cheap GeForce2 that is supported by nvtv. I recently switched
from a Radeon AIW to a cheap nvidia card and I'm so much
happier.

That being said =). You should change your Monitor timing to

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-50
VertRefresh 60

the "Screen" section "DefaultDepth" to 16 and all of the
"Modes" lines to:

Modes "800x600" "640x480"

(well, I guess only the Depth 16 line matters ;-)

None of this will help if you don't have the devel build
of ati.2. I believe the driver defaults to some or all of
these settings even if you don't have them in your config.

The current nvidia driver supports 24 bit color, up to 1024x768
resolution and overscan adjustments for certain chip sets.
For cards that are supported by nvtv, you get overscan,
x,y centering adjustments and several other useful controls.

As you bang your head against the wall trying to get the AIW
to work, remember you're $30 away from much better output ;-).

-- bjm