Hi,
I have a similar problem with my TV out on a ATI Radeon 9600 (running FC3). Using the latest ATI drivers, I can see my linux desktop on the TV and monitor at the same time when I select clone mode. If I choose Watch Live TV, then the TV screen goes blank and the picture is displayed only on the monitor.

However if I use the ATI control center to select the TV as my primary monitor and use a single display, then reboot, then my monitor is blank and the TV shows the desktop and MythTV menus, etc. But when I select Watch Live TV, my TV screen goes blank and my monitor pops up with the TV picture.

I am using a DVI connection to my monitor - If I try unplugging this before I boot up, then the same thing happens: the TV screen goes blank when I selected Watch Live TV. If I plug my monitor back in then the picture appears on that.

Does anyone know how I can disable my monitor or force the TV-Out to remain as my primary monitor even when I select Watch Live TV ? I have also tried using fglrxconfig but if I select single output and enable TV out, the picture only appears on my DVI monitor.

I would really appreciate any ideas anyone has on this! I am at a loss...

OK - I followed your guidelines here in conjunction with the latest ATI drivers and a powercolor 9200le AGP card. Works fine and now have mythtv correctly functioning on the TV.

Noted that I needed to use their AGP GART implementation and correctly specify the correct PAL setting for my country.

Also, appears to work better if only the composite connection is plugged into the TV, not in conjunction with the monitor.

The only problem I have is that the picture is slightly higer that it should be, chopping out a small part of the picture at the top.

F

Hi fman,
I had a similar problem with the picture being chopped when using a PVR150. In this case it was chopped on both my monitor and the TV out. The problem seemed to be that the ivtv drivers were not able to resize the picture, so the capture resolution had to be set to 720x480 or 720x576 for PAL. Don't know if this is the problem that you are experiencing, but it might be worth a shot...

Hi fellow ATI card users ..

I have had 1080i HDTV (from DVB-T source in Sydney) decoding and displaying fine with my Radeon 9550. It's been working since the last several driver releases from ATI (I'm currently on 8.18.6). I use a custom modeline at 1216x684 resolution. I'm not using TV out.

Not sure if this was mentioned previously in the instructions, but after using alien to convert the .rpm to .deb and installing with dpkg, I had to manually compile the fglrx kernel module to get DRI (acceleration?) working. This was necessary to get smooth HDTV video.

Currently, opengl vsync still doesn't work (mythfrontend falls back to RTC timing method).

Also, mythgallery opengl transitions don't work. Neither does mythmusic gears (which uses opengl) doesn't work.

glxgears works fine ..

Just wanted to say thanks to the OP, this fixed my problem with my ATI 9200. I have a PVR-150 which "worked" right out of the box with RA26. However, it had very laggy or jumpy playback on both video and sound. I thought it had to be the capture card and spent quite a bit of time messing with ivtv and drivers and all that junk. Finally I gave up did a fresh install and started chaning hardware besides the capture cards to see if I could located a problem. First thing I tried was an old nvidia vid card and sure enough it worked flawlessly (but didn't have tv out). So I put the ati back in and followed your instructions and boom! Now it all works great.

Now I can start playing with all the fun stuff and tweak the small details till I'm happy with it!!! Can't wait!

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I have the radeon 7000 and the VGA port works fine but the composite and the svideo ports flicker really fast rendering them useless. Is there a certain refresh rate I could change to perhaps stop it from flickering so much? I didn't have to install any drivers to get it to even get a picture so I was thinking it was a setting problem. Also I tried to install the i386 drivers to fix it and when I go through all the options and reboot the computer says it can't start the X server and that the drivers I have are optimized for debian not the free project. Any idea what would be wrong with that?