Is intel/SVDO "supported"

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Dec 4 15:31:51 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:49 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 19:45 +1100, garrone wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:23:32PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 19:37 +1100, garrone wrote:
> > > > The intel man page (in xf86-video-intel) says:
> > > > "SDVO and DVO TV outputs are not supported by the driver at this time."
> > > > 
> > > > I'm curious as to why this is the situation with SDVO?
> > > 
> > > Because no one both: has SDVO TV out hardware, and is capable of making
> > > it work.
> > 
> > Thanks. I interpreted that as meaning "Neither SDVO nor DVO TV outputs
> > are supported..." rather than the combination.
> 
> Right.  Many SDVO output types are supported, but SDVO TV isn't.

Some people have built working TV support using the code in our git
tree.  I've even included their code with some modifications.  So the
difference from here to working SDVO TV support should be minor.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com


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