Re: [Linux-fbdev-users] Frambeffer to TV troubles

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Hihn, Jason wrote:
> I've got a ATI Graphics Expression+ PC2TV (ATI MACH64/Rage II GT) and I
> finally got TV out to work. The perplexing thing was it's boot up and
> you could see output on the TV (using composite out), but when asked for
> a video mode  it's lose it after that. I played around with fbset,
> getting the monitor to do all kinds of funky things, but never a
> picture.  (I was playing with resolutions and timings) Oh, and I was
> using the Vesa driver
>
>
>
> Then I went into include/linux/fb.h and made the default videomode's
> timings as I wanted: 20330, 128, 32, 32, 8, 128, 5 (NTSC) which worked!
> Now I use mode 0x311 and I can get a picture. It seems that the pixclock
> is hardcoded to some non-NTSC compatible values.

So if you pass these values using fbset, it doesn't work?

Strange...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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