[vox-tech] starting X on TV/S-Video output?

[Stephen M. Helms]

Hello Foo,

Are you starting the computer hooked up only to the TV?  I know with my ATI
All-in-Wonder Pro I had to start it up connected to the TV.  I am pretty sure
you can only set the resolution to 640 X 480 at 60Hz.  That seems to be the
highest supported option from ATI.  Have you tried the composite connector as
well or just S-video?  Is there a Co-ax(RJ-59 connector) option?

Also, I am wondering if you may need xinemara to setup multiple displays.  I do
not know how this will effect the computer if you only want a TV display.

-Stephen

Quoting Foo Lim <foo@joshuatree.cs.ucdavis.edu>:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone have a good recommendation for a card that has X support
> outputting to S-Video outputs?  I have an old ATI PC2TV card that has
> S-Video output, but when I try to start X, I get a lot of garbage on
> the
> TV.  I know there are cards such as Matrox G400 & G450 that have
> S-Video
> outputs, but I'm not sure if X supports their S-Video output
> interface.
> 
> I found xawtv, but it's not clear from the documentation
> (http://bytesex.org/xawtv/xfree4.html) that X will start on the
> S-Video
> output (it could be that one starts X on a monitor then drive the
> S-Video
> output from there or from console).  Has anyone played around with this?
>  
> I want everything to go through the S-Video output as if it was the
> monitor.
> 
> Thanks,
> FL
> 
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