I have an ATi Radeon 9600 that i (finally) got the ATi drivers working under Mandriva 2006 so now i'm trying to get the tv-out on the card working using aticonfig, my problem is that regardless what tv standard (VIDEO, SCART, or YUV) or tv signal format (NTSC or PAL) it always shows a rolling, black and white picture on the NTSC tv. The TV is not auto-detected so i have to force it on. I'm using X.org 6.9 and have checked the xorg.conf file and all seems to be in order there, though i could have missed someting. Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Did you set the vertical sync to either 50 or 60 hertz. Also did you set saturation. I am using a nVidia card but I had to set saturation from 0 (black and white) to a value like 128 to get color.

You should not use X.org version 6.9 because it has a memory leak. I am using version 6.8 in Gentoo and the developers have hard masked 6.9 because of the memory leak problem.

i'm still kind of a newb at all this, so i'm not really sure what to do. here is my current xorg.conf file. see what you think and thanks for the help! I also just discovered that i'm actually running Xorg ver. 6.8.99.900


# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
Screen "screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "fglrx"
Load "glx"
Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
# allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
Option "allowmouseopenfail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
HorizSync 30.0 - 64.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 100.0
ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630
ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"

# === disable PnP Monitor ===
# will be disabled automatically
#Option "NoDDC"
# === Screen Management ===
Identifier "device1"
Driver "fglrx"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
Option "DPMS"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
Option "VRefresh2" "unspecified"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
Option "CenterMode" "off"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
# === FSAA ===
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
# === FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ===
Option "DesktopSetup" "clone"
Option "HSync2" "unspecified"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "no_dri" "no"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x06419064"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "TVFormat" "NTSC-M"
Option "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, AUTO"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
Option "TVStandard" "VIDEO"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "ForceMonitors" "crt1,notv"
# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV" "no"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
# === QBS Support ===
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1024 768
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1024 768
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1024 768
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Virtual 1024 768
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection