tv-out and your superpatch

[Alex Deucher]

On 7/29/05, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> I tried your superpatch of 27 juli on a cvs head of yesterday on my
> multimedia box to be; a dell gx110 with a 550 MHz P3 and a PCI Radeon
> 7500 AIW (RV200 QW).
> 
> I added:
> 
>  Option "TVFormat" "1" # PAL
>  Option "NoBIOS" "true"

"NoBIOS" has nothing to do with tv and should be removed. It disables
use of the bios for monitor detection.  It's a vestage of an old
patch.

> 
> to my device section (without nobios X fails to startup; first it breaks
> the console, when I ssh in X is spinning at 99%, when I then type reboot
> it locks up hard.)
> 
> With this setup:
>  - when booted with s-video cable attached to the TV:
>    X comes up in 640x480 and when I start a fullscreen mplayer the XV
> output is shown on the TV in a 2,5x2 tiled fashion with all colors
> weird.
> 
>  - when booted without the s-video attached but connected after bootup:
>    X comes up in 1024x768 (the set resolution in xorg.conf) and no TV
> output what so ever; XV output is visible on the monitor.
> 
> Apparently it relies on the BIOS to init the TV encoder or some such
> thing.
> 

no.  The bios is not required to use the tv-encoder.

> In both cases (and with an unpatched HEAD install) there are drawing
> errors. Most notably the mouse pointer is one big scrambled block;
> however a lot of Xshape windows also have render issues (moving a window
> over them does occasionally fix it). Just for reference 6.8.2 does work.
> 
> On second thought; it might be that everything that uses an alpha
> channel is screwed.
> 
> Also I tried to make some screenshots; both with imagemagick import and
> with the GNOME screenshot applet; both give a full white png.
> 
> 
> 
> *SIGHT*
> 
> Ok, so lets start over; I just power cycled the thing while having lunch
> and now it does switch to the mode specified in the config file when
> booted with the S-Video cable connected (I plugged it into a bttv card
> of another machine so I now could test NTSC as well as PAL). Also the
> NoBIOS option is no longer required.
> 
> Anyway; all supported video modes (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768) with
> either TVFormat 0 or 1 give an output on the TV that is majorly
> scrambled. If I move the mouse something does move. When I play a movie
> the colors are match the general hue of the movie when using PAL.
> 
> So now I does attempt to show the whole X desktop, not only the XV
> output anymore but still no luck.
> 
> Also the render issue with (presumably the alpha pixmaps) is still
> there.
> 
> 
> Anything else I can send you? logs, config file (althoug it is not very
> interresting)?
> 
> attached is a log of the last run.
> 

thanks for testing.  I haven't gotten tv-out working yet, nor have I
really even spent much time on it.  I'm trying to get out-put mapping
and LVDS+internal TMDS working first, but I'll get back to tv-out
eventually.  I got similar results when I tested on my 9550.  BTW, I
have a new patch, however, it only has output mapping related changes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3621

Alex

> 
> --
> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
> 
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