How to enable ATI Radeon 9600Pro (fglrx) TV-out fb?

Mitchua · 08-14-2005, 11:32 PM

Hi

I'm running Ubuntu 5.04 with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with TV-out. I've installed the fglrx ati-drivers and using some device options in my xorg.conf, I can clone my desktop to my tv. However, since my monitor is an LCD (DVI) I need to run at 1280x1024 and my TV can only display 1024x768, and I see a piece of my desktop that scrolls around with my mouse.

After some careful Googling, I've come across some posts that mention using a "fb" (framebuffer?) with xine to display just the video on the TV. Can anyone tell me how to do so? Suggest a better way?

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Mitchua

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Quote:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9600 (R300 AP)"
Driver "fglrx"

# ### generic DRI settings ###
# === disable PnP Monitor ===
#Option "NoDDC"
# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===
Option "no_accel" "no"
Option "no_dri" "no"
# === misc DRI settings ===
Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr
# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###
# === Screen Management ===
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000100"
#Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT, STV"
Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, STV"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "off"
Option "HSync2" "31.5 "
Option "VRefresh2" "20 - 60"
Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"
# === TV-out Management ===
Option "NoTV" "no"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVHSizeAdj" "0
Option "TVVSizeAdj" "0
Option "TVHPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj" "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj" "0"
Option "TVColorAdj" "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x06419064"
# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===
Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "on"
# === OpenGL Overlay ===
# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay
# will be disabled automatically
# Option "OpenGLOverlay" "on"
# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===
Option "CenterMode" "off"
# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
# === QBS Management ===
Option "Stereo" "off"
Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
# === FSAA Management ===
Option "FSAAEnable" "no"
Option "FSAAScale" "1"
Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
# === Misc Options ===
Option "UseFastTLS" "0"
Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

/var/log/Xorg.0.log:

Quote:

(II) fglrx(0): [agp] enabling AGP with mode=0x1f000304
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] AGP protocoll is enabled for grafics board. (cmd=0x1f000304)
(II) fglrx(0): [agp] grafics chipset has AGP v2.0
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] ringbuffer size = 0x00100000 bytes
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] DRM buffer queue setup: nbufs = 100 bufsize = 28672
(II) fglrx(0): [drm] texture shared area handle = 0xf92a9000
(II) fglrx(0): shared FSAAScale=1
(II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull!
(II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xe0000000 FBMappedSize: 0x00701000
(II) fglrx(0): ----------------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): | panel native mode is 1280x1024 |
(II) fglrx(0): ----------------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Splitting WC range: base: 0xe0000000, size: 0x701000
(II) fglrx(0): Splitting WC range: base: 0xe0400000, size: 0x301000
(II) fglrx(0): Splitting WC range: base: 0xe0600000, size: 0x101000
(==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xe0700000,0x1000)
(==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xe0600000,0x101000)
(==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xe0400000,0x301000)
(==) fglrx(0): Write-combining range (0xe0000000,0x701000)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM initialized for area (0,0)-(1280,1434)
(II) fglrx(0): FBMM auto alloc for area (0,0)-(1280,1024) (front color buffer - assumption)
(==) fglrx(0): Backing store disabled
(==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using hardware cursor (scanline 1024)
(II) fglrx(0): Largest offscreen area available: 1280 x 402
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
(II) fglrx(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
Screen to screen bit blits
Solid filled rectangles
8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles
Solid Lines
Dashed Lines
Offscreen Pixmaps
Setting up tile and stipple cache:
30 128x128 slots
(II) fglrx(0): Acceleration enabled
(II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x00000001
(II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
(II) fglrx(0): Direct rendering enabled
(II) Loading extension FGLRXEXTENSION
(II) Loading extension ATITVOUT
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(**) Generic Keyboard: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(==) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 5
(**) Option "Resolution" "1600"
(**) Configured Mouse: Resolution: 1600
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
AUDIT: Mon Aug 15 00:07:52 2005: 25428 X: client 2 rejected from local host
Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
(II) 3rd Button detected: disabling emulate3Button

plapla · 08-16-2005, 08:16 AM

I don't think that U could handle 2 different screens size using clone mode.

I think U need to have 2 different screen sections and define a screen layout where you set the properties of your TV screen appropriately (1024x768 from what U say).
Then U will refer to the first screen as DISPLAY=:0 and the second as DISPLAY=:1.
Thus you will be able to control where your apps will show.

In the layout section you can say how the screens relates to each others.
For example
Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
Dunno if this is really needed/useful with TVOUT though.
This worked fine with 2 reals screens but since my TV SVideo is broken I never managed to get it work for TV correctly :'(

Please report if you manage to get it working.