S-Video Out Radeon 7000VE

[ethan at audio-crusade.com]

I should add I've also tried:

xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1


> I'm trying to get S-Video out working on a Radeon 7000VE (Rv100).
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> I've spent a few days googling through the archives here and still can't
> get S-Video working. No matter what I do xrandr reports the S-Video is as
> disconnected.
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> I've upgraded to
> Xorg 7.3,
> xrandr 1.2
> xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.8.
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> I'm running debian SID with 2.6.18-3-686
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> When I run the following S-Video still says it's disconnected. It seems
> from several threads that the following commands are all folks need to get
> it working.
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> xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
> xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600
> xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard ntsc
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> I even went and bought a new S-Video cable.
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> One question that's not clear to me from previous posts. Should the above
> commands work without any changes to xorg.conf? If xorg.conf configuration
> is needed to support the above commands can someone point me to a thread
> on them I can't seem to find anything.
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> Is there anything I should be looking in Xorg.0.log for?
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> I see that following II in the log:
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> (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video has no monitor section
> (II) RADEON(0): Default TV standard: PAL
> (II) RADEON(0): TV standards supported by chip: NTSC PAL
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> Does the fact that it defaults PAL cause me problems?
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> The only other informational line is:
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> (II) RADEON(0): Output S-video disconnected
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> which is what xrandr gives me.
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> I do see two sets of WW's:
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> (WW) RADEON(0): No crtc mode list for crtc 1,continuing with desired mode
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> (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
> (WW) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION  was: 0xebffe800 is: 0xebffe800
> (WW) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffffffc0 is: 0xf87ff800
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