HOWTO: TV-out for legacy ATI cards using GATOS

**gigahz** · January 15th, 2008

Hi Thanks, now the driver compiles. However, I get the message "option TVout not used" or something as a (WW) in Xorg.log... Suggestions?

**dfoxpro** · January 26th, 2008

Hi

I'm tried to install GATOS in my pc, but i had a "problem" when i try to make, because i'm a newby i don't understand this lines...:

Code:

make: *** No se especificó ningún objetivo y no se encontró ningún makefile.  Alto.

this mean something like this...:

Code:

	
Make: *** There is no specified purpose and not found any makefile. Stop

Can you help me?
i think because i try to install in a Ubuntu 7.10

(Perdonen mi ingles tan malo...)

**sebos69** · January 28th, 2008

Originally Posted by dfoxpro

Hi

I'm tried to install GATOS in my pc, but i had a "problem" when i try to make, because i'm a newby i don't understand this lines...:

Code:

make: *** No se especificó ningún objetivo y no se encontró ningún makefile.  Alto.

this mean something like this...:

Code:

	
Make: *** There is no specified purpose and not found any makefile. Stop

Can you help me?
i think because i try to install in a Ubuntu 7.10

(Perdonen mi ingles tan malo...)

Did you type all the commands shown in the first post? Such as:

Code:

cd xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0
export XORG_PREFIX="/usr"
export XORGCONFIG="--prefix=$XORGPREFIX --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var"
./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xorg-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules
make

**icon_mefisto** · February 16th, 2008

I want to try this patched ati driver, but it makes me nervous.

Just wondering how I would revert back to the standard ati driver, if this patched driver doesn't work for me.

Is it as simple as reinstalling the ati driver from repos? Or do I have to do something to remove the patched one first?

**djhash** · July 7th, 2008

Ola.. so I did everything in the cchtml wiki.. and i think its half working..

When I switch to 800x600 the LCD screen gets all squiggly and the tv shows gray-scale squiggly.. below is my xorg.conf

when I change the -hsync -vsync to either +,- or -,+ or +,+ I get the squiggly stuff and the same is shown on the s-video... when I keep them both -,- the LCD screen shows perfectly, but nothing on the S-video connection..

So I guess the problem is with either the vertical/horizontal sync or maybe both. Also, it might be possible i'm getting the image as greyscale and no colors. And I hope there is a fix for that. Thanks...

Code:

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ImPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"stylus"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"	"stylus"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"eraser"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"	"eraser"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"cursor"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"	"cursor"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
	Boardname	"ati"
	Busid		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Driver		"ati"
	Screen	0
	Option		"TVOutput" "NTSC"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Vendorname	"Generic LCD Display"
	Modelname	"LCD Panel 1024x768"
	Horizsync	31.5-48.0
	Vertrefresh	56.0 - 65.0
  modeline  "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync -hsync
  modeline  "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync -vsync
  modeline  "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync -vsync
  modeline  "1024x768@60" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -vsync -hsync
	Gamma	1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	Defaultdepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes		"1024x768@60"	"800x600@60"	"800x600@56"	"640x480@60"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen 0 "Default Screen" 0 0
	Inputdevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	Inputdevice	"Configured Mouse"
	
	# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
	#	InputDevice     "stylus"	"SendCoreEvents"
	#	InputDevice     "cursor"	"SendCoreEvents"
	#	InputDevice     "eraser"	"SendCoreEvents"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
	Load		"GLcore"
	Load		"v4l"
EndSection
Section "device" #   
	Identifier	"device1"
	Boardname	"ati"
	Busid		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Driver		"ati"
	Screen	1
	Option		"MergedFB"	"off"
	Option		"TVOutput" "NTSC"
EndSection
Section "screen" #   
	Identifier	"screen1"
	Device		"device1"
	Defaultdepth	24
	Monitor		"monitor1"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes		"800x600@60"
	EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "monitor" #   
	Identifier	"monitor1"
	Vendorname	"Plug 'n' Play"
	Modelname	"Plug 'n' Play"
  modeline  "640x480@60" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -vsync +hsync
	Gamma	1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

**osxdude** · July 8th, 2008

Here is my xorg.conf, as I have the same card as you (as you told me in the IRC):

Code:

# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
	Option		"XkbVariant"	"intl"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizEdgeScroll"	"0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"stylus"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"		"stylus"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"		# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"eraser"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"		"eraser"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"		# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"cursor"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/wacom"
	Option		"Type"		"cursor"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"		# Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Internal"
	Driver		"radeon"
	BusID		"PCI:1:0:0"
	Option		"AGPMode" "4"
	Option		"AGPFastWrite" "true"
	Option		"RenderAccel" "on"
	Option		"MonitorLayout" "LVDS, NONE"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
#	InputDevice     "stylus"	"SendCoreEvents"
#	InputDevice     "cursor"	"SendCoreEvents"
#	InputDevice     "eraser"	"SendCoreEvents"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

**Borisdieklinge85** · February 24th, 2009

Hi,
I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on a Duron 650 with a Radeon 7200.
I have successfully made the steps in the howto.
When I boot with only the TV at Cinch-TV-Out connected, the Boot sequence is shown on the TV, but when the X server starts, I see the Ubuntu background flickering for half a second and then the screen turns sometimes green, sometimes brown

My Xorg.conf is exactly the one in the how-to, but I tried

monitorlayout "TV"

monitorlayout "TV, CRT"

monitorlayout "AUTO"

and

#monitorlayout "TV"

thx for help!

**wavemaking** · October 25th, 2009

Could anybody tell me what the status of this is in Karmic? Various news messages on the net indicate that this capability should now be inbuilt in the xorg radeon driver. And when I use xrandr, I can just you the commands without any errors popping up, but still the TV shows nothing.

lspci say that I have a:

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01)

**toagathonen** · January 19th, 2010

Originally Posted by WilliamAnderson

Hi all,

First I want to say what fantastic instructions you gave. Thank you for creating this post and providing this information. I had no trouble following them and successfuly downloaded, patched, compiled, installed, and configured TV out following these instructions. I encountered no errors or warnings as I did this. However, it did not work. After chasing down a faulty TV in plug on one TV, I get nothing on the TV screen after X starts.

Contrary to the list of supported cards at the Gatos site, the patch supplied does not touch the r128 driver source files. It does not enable TV out for these cards. If your card is not a Radeon, it will not work. However, the TV Out on my Rage 128 pro card does work until the frame buffer is enabled (Ubuntu splash screen) and/or until the X server starts.

When I find a way to enable TV out I will come back and post how I was able to make it work.

William

Hi William,

I know that it you wrote this post a long time ago, but I was wondering if your attempts to enable TV-out for an ATI card that uses the r128 driver ever worked.

I am an absolute newbie with Ubuntu with no Linux or other programming experience whatsoever--my abilities are basically limited to cutting and pasting these code commands without understanding what they are really doing.

I have an old Dell Latitude c600 with an ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x, and Ubuntu 9.10 set up the r128 driver by itself when I installed it.

When I followed the How-To I got an error similar to two of those posted here (#19 & #20) during the configuring/compiling (?) stage--in particular, at

./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xorg-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules

The "checking" process which followed my input of this command stopped as follows:

checking for DRI... configure: error: Package requirements (libdrm >= 2.0 xf86driproto) were not met:

No package 'libdrm' found
No package 'xf86driproto' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables DRI_CFLAGS
and DRI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

I don't have the slightest idea what this means. But according to what you said in your post, there's no point to it anyway, since the how-to doesn't work for r128.

So did you find another solution? One that someone like myself might be able to implement?

Thanks for any help you can give!

**pacmanfan** · July 12th, 2010

Edit: Problem resolved. Please see the bottom of this post for the fix.

Hello, community. Sorry to bump such an old thread, but I think this is the right place for my issue. I'm trying to get GATOS running on an Xubuntu Lucid box. I've successfully completed every step up until the "make" command in this tutorial. After that, I get the following error:

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andrew@xubuntu:~/atidrivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andrew/atidrivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andrew/atidrivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0/src'
if /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..    -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1   -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri   -g -O2 -MT atibus.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/atibus.Tpo" \
      -c -o atibus.lo `test -f 'atibus.c' || echo './'`atibus.c; \
    then mv -f ".deps/atibus.Tpo" ".deps/atibus.Plo"; \
    else rm -f ".deps/atibus.Tpo"; exit 1; \
    fi
 gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/xorg -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/drm -I/usr/include/X11/dri -g -O2 -MT atibus.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/atibus.Tpo -c atibus.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/atibus.o
In file included from atibus.c:28:
ati.h:32:24: error: xf86_ansic.h: No such file or directory
In file included from atibus.c:33:
atistruct.h:58:27: error: xf86Resources.h: No such file or directory
In file included from atibus.c:33:
atistruct.h:248: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pciVideoPtr'
atibus.c: In function 'ATIClaimResources':
atibus.c:69: error: 'resPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:69: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
atibus.c:69: error: for each function it appears in.)
atibus.c:69: error: expected ';' before 'pResources'
atibus.c:73: error: 'resRange' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:73: error: expected ';' before 'Resources'
atibus.c:76: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedVGA'
atibus.c:86: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedVGA'
atibus.c:86: error: 'resVgaSparseShared' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:86: error: 'resVgaSparseExclusive' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:87: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedVGA'
atibus.c:87: error: 'resVgaShared' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:87: error: 'resVgaExclusive' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:88: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:92: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedVGA'
atibus.c:93: error: 'Resources' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:93: error: 'ResShrIoSparse' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:93: error: 'ResBus' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:95: error: 'ResExcIoSparse' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:102: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:104: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'VGAWonderResources'
atibus.c:109: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedAccelerator'
atibus.c:115: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedAccelerator'
atibus.c:115: error: 'res8514Shared' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:115: error: 'res8514Exclusive' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:116: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:122: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'SharedAccelerator'
atibus.c:129: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:145: error: 'pResources' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:145: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:145: error: 'ResExclusive' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:149: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c: In function 'ATIClaimBusSlot':
atibus.c:174: error: 'pciVideoPtr' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:174: error: expected ';' before 'pVideo'
atibus.c:176: error: 'pVideo' undeclared (first use in this function)
atibus.c:177: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:179: warning: passing argument 4 of 'xf86ClaimPciSlot' from incompatible pointer type
/usr/include/xorg/xf86.h:97: note: expected 'GDevPtr' but argument is of type 'DriverPtr'
atibus.c:179: error: too many arguments to function 'xf86ClaimPciSlot'
atibus.c:181: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:183: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
atibus.c:186: error: 'struct _ATIRec' has no member named 'iEntity'
make[2]: *** [atibus.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/atidrivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrew/atidrivers/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Fix: After all the prerequisites have been installed, enter only:

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wget http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.13.1.tar.bz2

in place of the two packages that you would have downloaded in previous versions.

From my experience, this newer package doesn't need to be patched, so you can skip that step. Good luck!