alex chiang: web 6.0

I’m not normally one to rave about Linux distributions, mostly because I picked one a long time ago (debian) and stuck with it. However, I am pleased to report that I’m now running Ubuntu on my Asus Pundit-R based system and have finally gotten the TV-Out to work thanks to a clue from this guy.

The key was to run fglrxconfig. However, instead of wiping out your existing xorg.conf, all you really need are these options in your “Device” Section:

 # === TV-out Management ===
Option "TVFormat"                   "NTSC-M"
Option "TVStandard"                 "VIDEO"
Option "TVHSizeAdj"                 "0"
Option "TVVSizeAdj"                 "0"
Option "TVHPosAdj"                  "0"
Option "TVVPosAdj"                  "0"
Option "TVHStartAdj"                "0"
Option "TVColorAdj"                 "0"
Option "GammaCorrectionI"           "0x00000000"
Option "GammaCorrectionII"          "0x00000000"

The other thing I did was to create a new “Monitor” and “Screen” section:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TvMonitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier      "TvScreen"
Device          "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9100 A5 (R200 IGP)"
Monitor         "TvMonitor"
DefaultDepth    24

Subsection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection

EndSection

Obviously, you shouldn’t forget to update your “ServerLayout” to use the new Screen:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier      "Default Layout"
#Screen         "Default Screen"
Screen          "TvScreen"
InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

As they say, w00t!

(This post originally written 30-October-2005)