After setting up my Hercules 3D Prophet to do dual-head (thanks for the help again Alex & Co.:) ), packed with new enery to fight yet another battle, I want to use my TV-out to see DVDs (or any other thing). Being the optimistic I am I thought that simply plugging in the RCA cable from the card to the TV would do the trick -- it didn't. This is what I have so far:
1. I learned that the TV shows (tries to show) the contents of the second CRT monitor (I have two standard VGA connectors).
2. The image shown on the TV is just a bunch of lines dancing around the monitor.
3. I do know it's trying to show the image from the monitor since I can things change on the TV when they change on the monitor -- for example opening or closing a window with a white background will create or hide a brighter section of lines on the TV
4. When I try a single-monitor XF86Config the TV is blank
5. In console mode the TV is blank
6. I've tried lowering the resolution of both screens or one of them to 800x600 -- same thing
7. When the TV-out cable is connected, the second CRT displays badly, as if its cable is malfunctioning (worse colors, and some bluriness)
Some Google searching led me to a small utility name atitvout. Running atitvout detect gives me:
CRT is attached.
TV is attached via S-Video.
(is sais "TV is attached" even when it's not)
Trying to use it to actually activate the TV gives me no results or error messages in the form of "unsupported by your card, blah blah blah".
Anyone has any leads as to where I can find relevant information, or what steps I need to do to make this work?
And last but not least, system info:
Redhat 9 (with many RPMs from Fedora)
Kernel: 2.6.0test9
XFree: compiled by myself, 4.3.99.14
Video-card: Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 dual-vga-head + tv-out (Radeon 7000-based)
Thanks alot.
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