Re: radeon mobility 9000 + tv-out

[Elias Gerber <egerber at gmx dot net>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 19.13, Rodrigo Gruppelli wrote:
> Hello... I have a ECS G732 laptop with a radeon mobility 9000 adapter w/
> svhs out.
>
> I want to watch my movies (dvd and divx) on my TV, but I couldn't figure
> out how to configure XF86Config-4. Well, actually I already did that,
> but not the way I want it. I explain: to display the X desktop on TV, I
> have to manually switch the XF86Config file (configured for TV) and
> restart X. 

Hi!

I cannot help you with the problems you mentioned below, but could you please 
send me your xf86config-4 file that you use to display X on the TV? Reason: I 
am trying to get the tv-out on my thinkpad t40p (MOBILITY FIRE GL 9000)  
working for quite some time now, but i still had no success: I only get a 
"garbaged" image on the tv. Changing my xf86config-4 doesn't change anything.
I would be really glad if you could send me your config-file, so I can test it 
with that one.

> But when I'm gonna watch my movies, I cannot use the XV 
> extension. The video simply refuse to display on TV (that doesn't occur
> on the LCD), the screen of the player becomes black (not the whole
> desktop or the player itself, just where the video is supposed to show).

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I am still using windows 
to watch movies on the tv, and there i got absolutly the same behaviour: I 
can only see a black box where the video would be if the lcd and the tv is 
on. to watch the movie on the tv I have to turn of the lcd, and let only run 
the tv-out. Somebody once told me that this has something to do with the 
frequences used, tv 50hz, and something different on the lcd, but I don't 
know if that's true and what the details about it were..

Greetings

Elias Gerber

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