[i810] Connecting a TV using the i915GM's SVideo output

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Wed Oct 25 13:39:34 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:48 -0700, Gautam Iyer wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I've a laptop with an i915GM chip. My laptop has a VGA output and an
> SVideo output. With the 1.7.2 i810 driver, Xinerama / multihead work
> perfectly with the VGA output, but I can't get the SVideo output to
> work at all.
> 
> Has anyone on this list with a 915GM successfully managed to connect a
> TV to their computer using the SVideo output?

Have you tried connecting the TV at boot time ?

Otherwise, you might want to try adding the option "DevicePresence" to
see if it detects the TV.

Alan.




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