Switch TV output on Intel 945GM to PAL

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Konrad Bucheli <konrad.bucheli at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a small problem: I just would like to change the output mode of the
> TV output from NTSC to PAL
>
> Fighting with Google and xorg documentation I did not find any hint how to
> achive that and all my torturing of xrandr did not help ether.

xrandr --output TV1 --set mode PAL

should do the trick.

Alex

>
> # lspci | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
> 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> # dpkg --list | grep video-intel
> ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel              2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
>          X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
> # xrandr --verbose
> ...
> TV1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>        Identifier: 0x43
>        ...
>        left margin: 54 (0x00000036)    range:  (0,100)
>        mode:   NTSC-M
>                supported: NTSC-M       NTSC-443     NTSC-J       PAL-M
>                           PAL-N        PAL          480p at 59.94Hz 480p at 60Hz
>                           576p         720p at 60Hz    720p at 59.94Hz 720p at 50Hz
>                           1080i at 50Hz   1080i at 60Hz   1080i at 59.94H
> ....
>
> As I am from Europe the picture on the TV does not really look good with
> NTSC.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Cheers
>
> Konrad
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