General ATI TV-out problem with PAL B/G?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 07:00:49 PDT 2009


On 3/30/09, Andreas Juch <xorg at juch.cc> wrote:
> Am Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:42:30 -0400
>  schrieb Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  > On 3/27/09, Andreas Juch <xorg at juch.cc> wrote:
>
>
> > >  Has anybody successfully got TV output working in continental
>  > > europe? I know that the notebook with the radeon card is capable of
>  > > TV output with the TV set in question when it's running Windows XP,
>  > > so no hardware problem.
>  >
>  > PAL should work fine depending on what chip you are using.  If you are
>  > using an r1xx-r3xx based IGP chip, tv-out only works on NSTC at the
>  > moment.
>
>
> Ok. I have a RV350 (Mobility Radeon 9600 M10) so this would explain the
>  bad picture on the tv. Thanks for the info!
>

That chip should work fine.  What version of the driver are you using?
 PAL support was broken until 6.9.0.

>  Just for my interest: Is there any documentation for what the registers
>  in radeon_reg.h do? The code is quite hard to understand without docs.
>  The 3D docs on http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ didn't really help me.

Not at the moment.

Alex



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