gatos & xorg

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:54:04 -0500, Gene Heskett
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.

well there's tv-out code available, someone just needs to port it to
xorg cvs. it shouldn't be too hard.  It might be a nice starter
project for someone looking to hack on xorg.

Alex

> 
> Thanks, Alex.
> 
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