r500 tv-out?

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:18 PM, tommy jumps <tommypgh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I read the following about tv-out on r500
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjI2NQ and decided to buy
> an r500 based card for my mythbox (
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102080 ) upon
> pluggin it in I have since discovered that it doesn't quite work as planned
> ;-)
>  I have noticed there is a little tug of war going on in git and have
> disabled this commit
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git;a=commit;h=effa245914823371e052cd9aa1143a02350891e7
> and xrandr now sees my s-video out
>
> S-video connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
>         tv_standard: ntsc
>     load_detection: 1 (0x00000001) range:  (0,1)
>    800x600        59.9*+   60.3
>    720x600        59.7
>    640x600        59.9
>
> but my screen remains blank. Is there anything I can do about this?

TV-out only ever sort of worked on avivo-based radeons, so we
eventually disabled it.  You can revert that commit and attempt to use
it, but it sounds like you didn't have much luck.  TV-out has not been
a high priority so we haven't a chance to dig into it much more
lately.  Once we get r6xx/r7xx 3D out, we hope to revisit tv-out.

Alex