Re: radeon 9200SE tv out works only grayscale

Ondrej Certik wrote:
> Hi,
> I downloaded this patch
> 
> http://megahurts.dk/rune/stuff/xorg7-6.5.8.0-tv_output.patch.gz
> 
> and applied it to
> 
> xserver-xorg-video-ati-6.6.3
> 
> taken from debian unstable, but basically, its the same as
> 
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3.tar.gz
> 
> and I fixed some compilation issues becase the patch was made for
> 6.5.8. I set the resolution in xorg.conf to 800x600 and put
> 
> Option "MonitorLayout"   "AUTO, NONE"
> Option "TVOutput" "PAL"
> 
> to the Device section (I am living in the Czech Republic, so we use
> PAL). I turned off the computer, plugged the svideo cable in, turned
> on the computer and the TV showed the booting process and X, but
> everything in grayscale. I tried 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp color depth, but
> it was still grayscale. I also tried putting
> 
> Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"
> 
> to the Device section and
> 
> Modeline "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 -hsync -vsync
> 
> to the Monitor section, but I didn't see any difference (still grayscale).
> 
> Does anyone now how to get colors working on 9200SE? Maybe the problem
> is not in the gatos patch, because even the text mode is in grayscale.
> Any hint or suggestion would be appreciated.
> 
gray scale usually means one of three things:
1) Wrong output type is used (PAL vs. NTSC)
2) the AV input on your TV doesn't support svideo/YC (read your manual).
3) some TV needs to be told it is receiving svideo/YC (read your manual).

if you still have trouble, please mail me your log.


Rune Petersen

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