[i810] Connecting a TV using the i915GM's SVideo output

[Gautam Iyer]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:08:00PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:

> > > > I've a laptop with an i915GM chip. My laptop has a VGA output and an
> > > > SVideo output. With the 1.7.2 i810 driver, Xinerama / multihead work
> > > > perfectly with the VGA output, but I can't get the SVideo output to
> > > > work at all.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone on this list with a 915GM successfully managed to connect a
> > > > TV to their computer using the SVideo output?
> > > 
> > > Have you tried connecting the TV at boot time ?
> > 
> > Yep! Makes no difference.
> > 
> > > Otherwise, you might want to try adding the option "DevicePresence" to
> > > see if it detects the TV.
> > 
> > My TV is detected (though DevicePresence sometimes causes a crash). My
> > Xorg.0.log claims that the TV is present.
> > 
> > However nothing I do is shown on the TV. I've tried Xinerama, seperate
> > screens, clone, etc. I've also tried all possible values to the
> > MonitorLayout option.
> 
> LFP and TV can't be on the same pipe, so you should be doing this ...
> 
> Option "MonitorLayout" "TV,LFP"
> 
> If that's what you are doing, post a log and I'll take a look.

Yep, that's what I did. I'll post my xorg.conf and log files tomorrow :)

Thanks,

Gautam

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