General ATI TV-out problem with PAL B/G?

[Alex Deucher]

On 3/27/09, Andreas Juch <xorg at juch.cc> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  After trying to get TV-out working with two different notebooks on two
>  different TV sets I'm asking myself if the PAL B/G standard is working
>  at all in the radeon and mach64 drivers.
>
>  The TV output looks very similar with both devices: Black and white "ant
>  wars" screen which is somehow reacting to cursor-movement and moving
>  of windows, but far away from the output I would expect.
>
>  I looked a bit around in the source code of radeon_tv.c and didn't find
>  any special treatment for 50 MHz PAL standards (only PAL M and PAL 60).
>  I must admit I'm no C programmer and not familiar with X programming
>  either.
>
>  Has anybody successfully got TV output working in continental europe? I
>  know that the notebook with the radeon card is capable of TV output
>  with the TV set in question when it's running Windows XP, so no
>  hardware problem.

PAL should work fine depending on what chip you are using.  If you are
using an r1xx-r3xx based IGP chip, tv-out only works on NSTC at the
moment.

Alex