ATI Radeon X300 SE Driver Problems
I'm using KnoppMyth so forgive me for posting here, but the community is much bigger and I need the help.
I installed the ATI Radeon X300 SE graphics card before installing KnoppMyth and it worked great out of the box with my Dell monitor, but the problem came when I try to get S-Video working with my TV. When I first plugged it in and booted up I can see text running across the TV but is flashed by quickly and is constantly moving. When X starts it goes completely nuts and all I get is black and white lines flashing across the screen. BTW It was using: Driver "ati" in the xorg.conf file. I tried modifying the HorizSync and VertRefresh rates but I honestly don't know what they should be. I tried several values and they each changed the pattern on the screen but didn't work. So I installed the proprietary ati drivers ( fglrx v8.34.8 ) and I have the same problem. I've set the TVFormat to NTSC, TVStandard to VIDEO and resolution to 800x600 and honestly if I change much of anything then I end up with blank screens on both my monitor and on the TV. I don't want a dual screen setup, I just need to get the TV out working. I can post my xorg.conf file and Xorg.0.log files if that will help but I need to get my monitor's picture back first. |
I am not sure I can help you much with this problem but I do have a suggestion. Have you researched the refresh rates of the video card (maybe through ATI's website)? Maybe check to see if it will list what the s-video refresh rate should be set to?
I suppose it is possible that maybe it isn't even the refresh rate that's the problem, it could just be a driver problem!?!? I have the same video card as you so I am kind of interested in what you are trying to do....if you'd like to share your plans, I would be most interested! Maybe I can try doing the same thing in my distro [LinuxMint] to see if it works! Good Luck! |
So I've found a little more. I installed the ATI drivers using the installer and I think a dependency may be missing. I dug up this error while loading X.
Code:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 8 00:31:04 2007 |
I just tried compiling the drivers myself and the script fails:
Code:
root@mythtv:/lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod# sh make.sh |
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