intel 855GM and TV-out

[Maximilian Engelhardt]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On 8/4/07, Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi at daemonizer.de> wrote:
> > I got TV-out working with the old i810 driver some time ago, so the
> > TV-output does work. But since I updated to the new intel driver I can't
> > find anything where I can enable TV-out. It just seems as the driver
> > doesn't recognise my card has a TV-out.
>
> The old i810 driver relied on the BIOS to configure TV out. The new
> intel driver programs the graphics hardware directly, and currently it
> does not support TV-out on pre-915 hardware. 830-generation hardware
> relied on separate, third-party TV encoder chips, and while these
> chips are all publicly documented, no one has done the work to bring
> support to the intel driver.
>
> Intel employees have said this is one place that external developers
> can contribute to the driver without Intel's documentation.

Thanks for the quick answer. So I'll have to live without TV-out for now.

Maxi
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