[Openchrome-users] Buggy output for VT1625

[Ross Penner]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> Ross Penner wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I thought I'd try and get some help/give feedback on the tv out status
>> for the VT1625 chipset.
>>
>> Outputting with S-video, only the modes "720x480Over" and "720x480Fit"
>> function at all. Neither of these work very well as the GUI I load is
>> garbled and illegible (http://i42.tinypic.com/jioor6.jpg). What I find
>> bizarre is that the mouse pointer is rendered perfectly fine. Any
>> videos I've played with mplayer have worked as well when in full
>> screen(http://i39.tinypic.com/i6jfup.jpg) and not as well in windowed
>> mode(http://i39.tinypic.com/x3ioaf.jpg).
>>
>> My xorg.conf is http://pastebin.com/m14370695 and my xorg.0.log is
>> http://pastebin.com/m406dfbc
>>
>> Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I've built a MythTV system running Minimyth on a board including a
> VT1625. All seemed to work fine. I'm in the UK, so it was a 720x576
> mode. Just thought I'd mention this, so you know that the problem
> isn't universal.
>
> Cheers,
>        Paul.

Yeah, I've read that the PAL outputs work a lot better than the NTSC
is treating me. Thanks for the heads up regardless.