xf86-video-intel does not detect tv-out

Jin, Gordon gordon.jin at intel.com
Mon Dec 24 19:49:03 PST 2007


Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tired to connect a TV to my notebook yesterday. It's a Toshib
> Satellite L10 with Intel 852GM. Using the latest intel driver xrandr
> does not even detect a TV output:
> 
>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 1024
>> VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>> LVDS connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> axis) 304mm x 228mm 1024x768       61.3*+   60.0
>>    800x600        60.3
>>    640x480        59.9
>> TMDS disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> 
> VGA and LVDS is working well. But there is no TV; on the other hand a
> TMDS (DVI?) is detected which is not really there.
> 
> Something like "xrandr --verbose --output TV" just does nothing. I
> have also tried the old i810 driver. It does not detect the TV either
> but one 
> could "repair" this by setting the option "DevicePresence" (which is
> not known by the new driver anymore). But I would like to use the new
> one because of xrandr 1.2 and PAL support. i810 only produces a
> corrupted greyscale picture.
> 
> I am using the following package versions:
> 
>> kernel26 2.6.23.12-3
>> xf86-video-intel 2.2.0-1
>> xorg-server 1.4.0.90-2
> 
> I have also uploaded some interestring logfiles like xorg.log, dmesg
> etc.: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/xf86-video-intel+tv/
> 
> Do you have any idea who I could get this working? It does not seem
> to be a hardware problem; i810 partially works and of course windows
> does not have any problems :-(.
> 
> Pierre

It looks like the TV out is not detected at all.
Could you file a bug on https://bugs.freedesktop.org to track down?

Thanks
Gordon



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