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I've been having nightmares trying to configue TV-out support on my ATI Radeon 9200. I've had enough - which card should I get? I hear NVidia have good Linux support.
Any advice much appreciated, especially from those who have working TV-out on Fedora 3!
nVidia can output to TV out or the second connector very easily with a feature they like to call TwinView. Read the nVidia documentation how to do it after you got a nVidia card.
Distribution: Mandriva 2006 & 2007 Power Pack Club
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Using the drivers that ship with xwindows I haven't had any problems using the svideo out on my Radeon 9000 or my Radeon 7000 dual head card. Are you using the drivers from ATI or Xorg?
Well, Fedora ships with Xorg. I've tried downloading ATI's Linux Drivers. As it's designed to work with XFree86 it chucks up loads of error messages, but I press on and run flgrxconfig. I restart and the TV takes the console display and then goes stripey once X starts.
I'd be interested to hear how you managed to get your working!
Distribution: Mandriva 2006 & 2007 Power Pack Club
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Here is the funny thing I didn't really have to do anything except connect the second monitor or TV and then all I did was config the second display with KDE screen / display manager. Sorry I couldn't be more help. I was going to say if it was the ATI drivers one of my best buds had something similar to what you had happen with them. So after I told him to go back to the ones shipped with his distro didn't have a problem and they performed just as well.
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