S-Video out with radeon with 'Flyback Lines' showing on the TV

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM,  <uebershark at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The modeline is just there to make xrandr happy.  tv-out has fixed
>> timing (NTSC or PAL, etc.). The "modes" you set are just downscaled to
>> the size of the native timing.  It doesn't matter what mode you set
>> with xrandr, the driver will always program the timing the same way
>> since analog tv only accepted certain fixed modes.
>>
>> Alex
>>
> I've tried switching between NTSC and PAL using 'xrandr --set
> TV_FORMAT PAL /NTSC'
> And my screens flash and seem to reconfigure, but an error message is printed,
> and more importantly the output on the TV stays the same.(At leas I think so..)
> Whats up with that? (I would post the error, but I'm currently not at home..).
>

The propery is called 'tv standard', so you'd need to do something like
xrandr --output S-video --set 'tv standard' pal/ntsc

> Also, if the timings are fixed, then this could 'simply' mean that my
> TV (which is rather old) is 'not-compatible'.
> If that is so, how the hell does the windows driver 'manage'?
>

It means the driver doesn't work properly for your card for some
reason.  Does ums work any better?  There were some bugs in the kms
tv-out code that were fixed for 2.6.34, so you might try that.  Can
you post a picture of the problem somewhere?

Alex