[Dri-users] Radeon TV-Out?

[Arthur T. <ar...@if...>]

Hello All

I have a quick question. I used to be able to get tv-out working on 
Radeon-7500-Mobile by booting with the TV attached (via s-video) and 
then running 'atitvout -f t' as root (not atitvout -r t, as that fails). 
This would enable tv-out regardless of whether I was in X11 or console 
mode (more specifically, fbcon using radeonfb). Recently however I 
downloaded a recent version of xorg and the likes as per the DRI 
building wiki. Now the 'atitvout -f t' command fails in X11, yet if I 
switch to a tty, under radeonfb it works. Has someone added partial TV 
support to the radeon driver? Has someone done something that causes the 
VBE call for tv out to fail? Is there any way to activate tv-out in X11? 
After reading my Xorg.0.log file I noticed that it mentions things like 
"Detected Radeon Mobility M7, disabling multimedia i2c" and "no 
multimedia table present, disabling Rage Theatre," however I assume that 
these are talking about tv-in functions which my card lacks anyways 
(hey, its a laptop.) I would guess these questions are more directed to 
the developers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

(Also, I can provide a list of bugs about TV-Out when it did work for 
me, but as TV-out doesn't seem as important as other issues facing the 
dri, so it probably wouldn't be helpful.)

(Also from the line "disabling Rage Theatre" is 'theatre' a typo, or is 
the product called 'theatre', or was this developed by a canadian or 
french person, as theatre is the french or english-canada spelling of 
theater)