gatos & xorg

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 January 2005 17:14, Alex Deucher wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:08:49 -0500, Gene Heskett
>
><gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Monday 03 January 2005 13:40, Mikael Eriksson wrote:
>> >Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Has any of the work from the gatos project been synced with the
>> >> xorg cvs/releases?
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to get the tvout going on a radeon 9200se, and the
>> >> 4.3.0 gatos drivers don't recognise my card. Presumably if the
>> >> gatos functionality has made it into xorg then that should
>> >> support a 9200se.
>> >
>> >Have you tried atitvout?
>> >http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/
>>
>> And now I'm confused.  The pages referred to above all quote that
>> its for the r-128 chipset, but my 9200SE signs on as an rv-280
>> chipset.
>>
>> Is there someplace a dummy can actully look up the differences?
>
>atitvout just uses bios calls to enable outputs.  I think the vbe
>calls for most ati chips haven't really changed much so it works on
>almost all ati chips.  proper tv-out support would require
> programming the various tv-regs directly.
>
>Alex
>
In other words, I shouldn't hold my breath. The current 6.8.1 
apparently takes a look for a 2nd screen, but doesn't find an 
attached monitor so it politely goes away during the startx.

Thanks, Alex.

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