Help - please help...

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/25/05, Paul Santa Maria <paulsm1021 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> Apologies in advance if this isn't the correct forum, but I'm hopeful that one
> of you can help point me in the right direction.
> 
> PROBLEM:
> I'm trying to get S-Video output from ATI 9200SE video cards on SuSE Linux 9.2.
> 
> 
> I've tried literally 1000s of different combinations (including trying to
> install ATI's fglrx binaries - which only partially work, and trying to rebuild
> several latest/greatest versions of Xorg 6.8.2).
> 
> CURRENT STATUS:
> 1. I'm back to the standard Suse 9.2 distribution, including:
>    rpm -qa|grep x11 =>
> rpm -qa|grep x11
> xorg-x11-Mesa-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-6.8.1-15.5
> xorg-x11-driver-options-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-6.8.1-15.4
> ghostscript-x11-7.07.1rc1-207
> xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-server-glx-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-server-6.8.1-15.4
> yast2-x11-2.10.8-2.1
> xorg-x11-man-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-Mesa-devel-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-Xvnc-6.8.1-15
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-15.4
> xorg-x11-fonts-scalable-6.8.1-15
> heimdal-x11-0.6.2-8.1
> 
> 2. I'm running a single ATI 9200SE card in a PCI slot.
>    I'm running S-Video output to a 27" Zenith CRT (older glass-tube) monitor.
>    It boots fine in text mode.
>    I would expect the monitor to run at {60Hz vertical, 15.734 KHz horizontal}
> 
> 3. I generated my /etc/X11/XF86Config (on Suse 9.2, xorg.conf is
>    a symbolic link to XF86Config) with this command:
> 
>    sax2 -a -r --lowres --vesa 640x480 at 60
> 
> 4. My full XF86Config and Xorg.0.log files are below.
> 
>    The picture is "scrambled": like my horizontal or vertical settings are
>    way, way off.
> 
>    I'm sure the answer is something very, very simple .. maybe just changing
>    my "Modeline" parameter.
> 
> Any suggestions or advice would *definitely* be appreciated!
> 
> Thank you in advance .. PSM
> 

The current xorg radeon driver does not support tv-out.  fglrx might.  

Alex