Svga out on Radeon 9600 (Powerbook)

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:42:42 +0100, Daniele Menozzi <menoz at ngi.it> wrote:
> Hi all, I have an Albook 15", with radeon 9600. I successfully set up xorg
> for mirroring (with benh's patches), but I cannot set up the svga-out,
> that I wanted to use to watch film on a tv.
> The problems are:
> 
> - the svga out becomes active only if, before starting xorg, I link an external monitor to the DVI port
> - when the svga port is active (so only with an external monitor plugged
>   in the DVI port), if I try to link it with my TV, signal
>   has wrong hsync/vrefresh (tv standard is PAL, I live in Italy).
> 
> Can you give me some advices? Have somebody had the same problem?
> Here you can find my xorg.conf .
> 
> Thank you all
>         Menoz
> 

The Xorg radeon driver doesn't yet support TV-out.  The open source
beos radeon driver supports TV-out, someone just needs to port the
code over.

Alex