Video controller with TV-out

[William Grzybowski]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:48:33PM +0800, Jin, Gordon wrote:
> Nicolas George wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:54 PM:
> > Le decadi 10 floréal, an CCXVI, Beso a écrit :
> >> if i were your i'd search for pc that includes an intel powered
> >> videocard. their is the most advanced driver available for xorg and
> >> it has a lot of features, but they have a less powerfull rendering
> >> than other boards, like nvidia (good closed driver) or ati (actually
> >> still experimental driver that from time to time breaks and doesn't
> >> support very well igps). 
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > 
> > As I said, I rather like Intel controllers; in fact, I purposefully
> > sought one for my main workstation.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I read in the README of the intel driver:
> > 
> > # - Gray output with integrated TV-out and PAL TVs.
> > 
> > And the TV I want to plug is, indeed PAL (SECAM, actually, but afaik,
> > that's equivalent for S-video signal). If my digital video recorder
> > is only able to display films in black-and-white, I doubt it will be
> > a success. 
> > 
> > That is one information I would like to get here: this comment in the
> > README file, is it still accurate?
> 
> I don't know about the README info, but what I can tell is that most people are not seeing this gray issue. At least it works for me, and some people get it resolved with correct setting:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12748
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12125
> 
> But we still have one bug reporter who can't make it work:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14223

I am the one who can't make it work...
But it is very strange, my TV has support for NTSC also (PAL-M and NTSC), and doesnt work either (stills gray),
it could be a problem related to the ACPI of my laptop (if it can be connected in somehow),
don't be scared go for intel, they guys from intel driver are doing such a great job : )

> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Gordon
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