Need help to get VGA-to-TV working with Radeon 9250

Felix Kühling fxkuehl at gmx.de
Thu Jan 26 21:37:02 PST 2006


Am Freitag, den 27.01.2006, 06:16 +0100 schrieb Sebastian:
[snip]
> And I know the TV screen doesn't go black just because there's no signal
> at all on the VGA out because the TV OSD shows that it's forced to RGB
> which needs a certain voltage on a certain pin in the scart adaptor
> which isn't there when there's no signal.
> I read that modern TV sets just go black when they receive a signal they
> totally can't handle. Wouldn't that imply that the radeon driver doesn't
> get it quite right?

Can you connect a CRT to the VGA port instead of your TV-Adapter? This
way you'd see what the signal looks like. And if that monitor has an OSD
it may even tell you the refresh rate it's getting.

Regards,
  Felix

> I also converted the Dos modeline manually following this guide:
> http://www.knowplace.org/pages/howtos/xfree86_modelines_conversion_guide.php
> The result was exactly the same modeline that Powerstrip printed out
> before.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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