tv s-video out on RV410 (or R400 in general) revisited

Dennis New dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org
Thu Apr 18 08:19:56 PDT 2013


On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:02:41 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Dennis New
> <dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 May 2010 07:13:53 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Dennis Nezic
> >> <dennisn at dennisn.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> > http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature says it is "mostly"
> >> > implemented. Where can I find out what that means? Should it be
> >> > "implemented but buggy" on my rv410 card?
> >>
> >> No one's really ever gotten it working reliably on r4xx cards.
> >> The tv encoder is pretty much the same as the older asics
> >> (r1xx-r3xx), however, I think there is some gpio magic required to
> >> get it working properly.
> >
> > Where can I find the latest information about this card,
> > specifically about this feature? The table in
> > http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature says tvout should be supported,
> > but the manpage http://linux.die.net/man/4/radeon seems to imply
> > it's not.
> >
> > (Any idea what the aforementioned "gpio magic" might be, in case
> > that's what's needed?)
> 
> Nothing has changed. AFAIK, it still doesn't work on 4xx.  I don't
> know what is required to fix it off hand.

When is the (new) wiki expected to be working? Can anyone update the
incorrect information on that wikipage in the meantime? (To update the
"TV Out" statuses of these various boards as TODO or N/A ?)



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