Open-Source ATI Driver Gets TV-Out Support
Thanks to recent commits in the RandR 1.2 branch for the open-source X.Org Radeon driver, it's now possible to use S-Video and composite TV output on your ATI graphics card without any patches. This is not limited to the R200 series but will also work with the R300 series and theoretically any graphics card supported by the xf86-video-ati driver. In this guide have outlined the instructions for enabling TV output support from the Radeon driver git code as well as some of the current limitations. The commits in the RandR 1.2 branch earlier this month by Alex Deucher brought in initial TV-Out support (as a result of GATOS relicensing its code ). However, some of the initial limitations include only 800 x 600 resolution supported, composite and S-Video support with no component support, and no TV-Out detection support. Below are the basic steps needed to checkout the xf86-video-ati driver from the randr-1.2 branch and then to build and install the driver. X server 1.3 is...