ATI Radeon Xpress 200 S-video output on OpenSuse 12.1

Mario Blunk · 01-01-2014, 12:23 PM

I have a machine with this graphic adapter installed. The S-video output bothers me:

1. on boot I see the BIOS and the linux boot menu on the TV and the VGA screen
2. I also see the boot messages on both devices
3. as soon as the windowmanager starts, the TV screen goes black.

I presume, the driver is working fine in general. What is to be done to keep the s-video output active ?

Thanks.

TobiSGD · 01-02-2014, 08:29 AM

You can set modes and activate/deactivate the different outputs of the videocard using the xrandr command.
If you run it without parameters it will show you the available outputs and modes.
For more info have a look at

Code:

man xrandr

Mario Blunk · 01-03-2014, 01:28 AM

I did already. xrandr says S-video is not connected. I tried the commands proposed here

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to..._graphic_cards

but no joy.

The physical connection is working because on boot I see the BIOS messages and the GRUB boot selecton menu (with those funny pidgins walking to and fro) on the TV. For a second I also see the SuSe splash picture but afterwards the sceen blanks out.

John VV · 01-03-2014, 03:09 AM

you might want to think of upgrading
Opensuse 12.1 went end of life back in May 15 2013
and opensuse 12.2 WILL be going end of life in 13 DAYS

time to install 12.3