XVideo problems on Radeon 9800 PRO and DVI/component dongle

[Matthew McLean]

Yes, with the xorg radeon driver I've been able to use the DVI to 
component adapter.  2d and gl work OK.  xvideo does not work.  I was 
looking through your archive and had already seen that XV_SWITCH_CRT 
bug and it doesn't help if I set that.  I don't really understand why 
you need to know anything about the ATI adapter.  Isn't it designed 
to do all the work on it's own?  i.e. it does not need a software 
driver?  The video bios turns on the text console just fine and X in 
2D works fine too.  I hope this is something that can be worked 
around without needing help from ATI.  That's pretty scary that I'm 
the only person that's using this component adapter.

Thanks,
Matt.

At 10:47 AM 5/5/2006, Alex Deucher wrote:
>Are you saying your system works with the DVI to component adapter? 
>AFAIK, you're the only person that's either used or been successful
>with that adapter. ATI has not released any information about the how
>it works or what's needed to make it work.
>
>This looks like:
>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5623
>does setting the Xv attribute XV_SWITCH_CRT fix the problem for you?