TV-out. Which card?

siepmann · 11-18-2004, 04:27 PM

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!

Thanks,

Peter

Electro · 11-18-2004, 05:59 PM

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.

jchance · 11-18-2004, 06:40 PM

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?

siepmann · 11-19-2004, 02:39 AM

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!

Thank you,

Peter

jchance · 11-19-2004, 03:08 AM

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.

motovoi · 11-19-2004, 04:36 AM

Hello there,
did you try atitvout tool ?
It worked fine to me.

Regards

Diademed · 11-19-2004, 02:38 PM

I use the Leadtek Deluxe edition.... I forget what the card is called. the Winfast-XP deluxe I think. Works like a charm.