Radeon RV710 TV out not working

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Satz Klauer <satzklauer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> so is there a chance to get rid of the black strip at the bottom of the TV
> screen at least?

Once someone implements the feature.

Alex

> Mike
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Satz Klauer <satzklauer at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm using Fedora 13s radeon driver together with a Radeon HD 4350 that
>> > has a
>> > TV-out connector which is connected to a PAL TV set. Within my xorg.conf
>> > I
>> > have set the following additional options but I do not get a real PAL
>> > signal
>> > with PAL resolution out of the card:
>> > Option "VGAAccess" "FALSE"
>> > Option "TVDACLoadDetect" "TRUE"
>> > Option "ForceTVOut" "TRUE"
>> > Option "TVStandard" "pal"
>> > Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" "TRUE"
>> > Option "ATOMTVOut" "TRUE"
>> >
>> > Unfortunately the Xorg.log tells me that most these options are not
>> > used:
>> > [ 1654.824] (WW) RADEON(0): Color tiling is not yet supported on
>> > R600/R700
>> > [ 1654.925] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "VGAAccess" is not used
>> > [ 1654.925] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "TVDACLoadDetect" is not used
>> > [ 1654.925] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "ForceTVOut" is not used
>> > [ 1654.925] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" is not used
>> > [ 1654.925] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "ATOMTVOut" is not used
>> >
>> > And what I get out of the TV connector does not seem to be a real PAL
>> > signal:
>> > - I can't use the correct resolution of 720x576, the X-server starts
>> > with
>> > 1024x768 when I set this resolution in section "Screen"
>> > - I don't get a real overscan picture, when I use a resolution of
>> > 800x600
>> > (which is not really PAL) most parts of this screen are visible,
>> > overscan
>> > does not work
>> > - I have a small but ugly black strip on bottom of my screen (with a
>> > height
>> > of about 10..20 pixels), where no picture is displayed
>> > Hacking the display with xvidtune also does not work, it simply does not
>> > react to any of my changes.
>> > So how can I really get TV out working on this card?
>>
>> The card always outputs native PAL or NTSC, etc. timing.  The "modes"
>> provided by xrandr just define the desktop size that is downscaled to
>> the native tv timing.  Changing the mode doesn't change the timing,
>> only, the desktop size and scaling factor.  To adjust the tv settings,
>> use xrandr, e.g.,
>> xrandr --output DIN --set "tv standard" pal
>> To see all the properties for your connectors, run:
>> xrandr --verbose
>>
>> Adjustable over/underscan support has not been implemented with tv-out
>> at the moment.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> > Mike
>> >
>> >
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