Virge and TV-out

[Adam Sulmicki]

>
> There are virge databooks flaoting around, however, I don't recall if
> the virge had integrated tv-out or not.  I suspect it used an external
> tv-encoder.  If so you'd have to figure out what chip was used and how
> it was controlled.  You should be able to identify the tv-encoder on
> the board itself.  Assuming the bios interface hasn't changed, you may
> be able to hack the s3switch utility for savages to work on the virge.

Well, the s3switch more or less works (or at least does not seems to be
outright broken) . That is doing "s3switch tv pal" show screen resetnig
and starting in some other mode. Starting X after that is only slightly
less confused, but still not what it ought to be.

# s3switch
Devices attached:  CRT TV
Devices active:   none

Current TV format is NTSC

# s3switch tv pal
Devices attached:  CRT TV
Devices active:   none

Current TV format is NTSC

the chips are :

         14052B (M) XAC810
         f P85DJ 74F125
         S3 ViRGE/GX2 On Board N6P0IB 86C357

the pictures are :
         http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu:/~adam/IMG_6701.JPG
         http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu:/~adam/IMG_6702.JPG
         http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu:/~adam/IMG_6704.JPG
         http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu:/~adam/IMG_6705.JPG
         http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu:/~adam/IMG_6706.JPG



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