I've got TV-Out working with ATI's fglrx drivers. The Gatos project has also created opensource drivers; the radeon.o module. I believe it supports tvout too. ..but with their drivers I get just 30fps with UT, and the ATI drivers are a lot faster (off course.., but they are closed-source)
In install the ATI drivers:
go to
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/l...9&submit=GO%21
Because you're working on redhat, you might need to install the compiler tools (ie. developer packages) manually, some parts need to be compiled.
Then you install the rpm package you've downloaded from ati. I'm not sure whether the RPM sets everything up for you, but you might need type do these commands manually. Only run the next step if the previous step didn't produce an error!
Code:
cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build
make.sh
cd ..
make_install.sh
If you install a new kernel, you need to run these build steps again.
Then you can load the driver, and configure your Xserver:
Code:
modprobe fglrx
fglrxconfig
the fglrxconfig overwrites your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. If you made some changes to your xserver configuration, you might want to backup the old file, and integrate the settings later.
The setup asks you whether you want to use ATI's internal AGP module. I didn't have any luck with that, perhaps there is something special about my mainboard. You can give it a try though.
If you use the internal agpgart module, unload the kernel version first. (run "rmmod agpgart") If you can't use the internal module, load the original agp module for linux. (run "modprobe agpgart")
Try to run startx from a console, and examine the errors in the Xserver log:
Code:
grep -E "\((WW|EE)\)" /var/log/XFree86.0.log
It doesn't matter if you see a few warnings, but you're not supposed to get any errors.
Sometimes the fglrxconfig setup doesn't detect your PCI bus settings correctly. If this happens, you need to change the BusID line into:
...if you don't get any errors, you'll have TV-Out (I suggest clone mode), and 3D acceleration support!
Run fgl_glxgears to find out. The RPM also adds a configuration applet in your menu. You can use it to tune your tv-out settings.
