Noisy picture with intel driver and DVI ADD2 card

[Rich Aycock]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-12-16 19:05-0800 Rich Aycock wrote:
> 
>> I've got an Intel G33 that I'm trying to hook up to my 720p DLP TV. I'm using 
>> an ADD2 card to output DVI to my Toshiba 42HM66 HDMI input.  The picture 
>> comes up but there is a lot of noise (speckles bouncing around all over the 
>> TV) and occasional flickering.  In the Xorg log I see this line:
>>
>> (EE) intel(0): First SDVO output reported failure to sync
>>
>> which I think is the source of the problem.  When I use 640x480 intead of 
>> 1280x720 (720p) the picture is fine and I don't get that error above.  I also 
>> hooked an LCD monitor up to it via DVI and it worked fine. I've used the DVI 
>> out on my cable box with this TV without problems. Any ideas of how to fix 
>> this, or is it just a buggy TV?
>>
>> I'm using v2.2.0 of the intel driver from Debian Unstable.  I've attached my 
>> xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log.
> 
> This issue may be related to bug 13399.  There I reported a problem with my
> g33 chipset without ADD2 card.  I couldn't get the Debian unstable driver to
> work at all (keyboard lockup + monitor in extreme power save mode) unless I
> applied the i830-restore-pipeconf-fix.patch from bug #13196 to version
> 2.2.0.  So you might want to try that patch yourself.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I haven't had a lot of time the past few 
days, but I finally got around to testing this patch out and 
unfortunately it doesn't fix my problem.

Rich