Intel Atom D945GCLF2 s-video help

[mattsimis]

Definately interested in this! Dunno about the easiest online sharing, maybe: http://www.mediafire.com/ ?

[fzzz]

I put xorg.txt (need to rename to xorg.conf) and 2 deb files for Ubuntu 8.10, i386 at

xorg.txt http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rdbdzqyzkuj
dbg deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ozfi3t4xkz4
deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uzyzfqdnmy4

Drop me an email if you have trouble downloading the files and I can email them in return.

[mattsimis]

I put xorg.txt (need to rename to xorg.conf) and 2 deb files for Ubuntu 8.10, i386 at

xorg.txt http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rdbdzqyzkuj
dbg deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ozfi3t4xkz4
deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uzyzfqdnmy4

Drop me an email if you have trouble downloading the files and I can email them in return.

Any chance of a 9.04 (Alpha6) build? I completely overlooked the fact you stated 8.10 and just installed the latest!

EDIT: I reinstalled 8.10, installing the Debs above and the Xorg file gave me a blinking cursor on a black screen on reboot, on both TV and VGA. Wouldnt let me switch to another session either. I also found Mythbuntu 8.10 doesnt have power management installed so couldnt set the PC to Hibernate when power switch is pressed.

As the PC is integrated in a car (I have to have car running and hooked up to monitor to do all this, really messy), hibernate/power management + Svideo are a must.
9.04 on the otherhand seemed to have all the APM stuff working but no progress on the svideo problem.

[fzzz]

I've been getting feedback that the driver and xorg.conf have worked for several others. Note it is for i386, not 64 bit. I had to edit a couple paths in the original version of the xorg.conf (in the Files section) to get it to work for me. If there is any problem parsing the conf file my system pops up a small dialog (on the monitor only, not on the TV) with some info about what is wrong and waits till its resolved. I also have to have the monitor and/or TV turned on BEFORE powering up the computer. Otherwise I think all I get is the monitor as no TV was detected? I'm not sure if changing a line in the monitor section to "disable" "true" would prevent that or not.

BTW, the patch itself isn't mine, I have to give credit to Wang Zhenyu (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17776). I just built a DEB file to be able to install it on a system with no net access.

As for 9.x, doubtful. The only computer I am running this on has no internet access so it will probably run exactly what it has for some time. Its not hard to build a DEB if someone else wanted to though.

Any chance of a 9.04 (Alpha6) build? I completely overlooked the fact you stated 8.10 and just installed the latest!

EDIT: I reinstalled 8.10, installing the Debs above and the Xorg file gave me a blinking cursor on a black screen on reboot, on both TV and VGA. Wouldnt let me switch to another session either. I also found Mythbuntu 8.10 doesnt have power management installed so couldnt set the PC to Hibernate when power switch is pressed.

As the PC is integrated in a car (I have to have car running and hooked up to monitor to do all this, really messy), hibernate/power management + Svideo are a must.
9.04 on the otherhand seemed to have all the APM stuff working but no progress on the svideo problem.

[peioazkarate]

Because I see the Intel's guys are working on this driver, Instead of apply the patch made by Wang, I solved the problems using the version 2.7-rc1 of the xf86-video-intel.
Now the s-video out works great!! on my Philips TV, 29"CRT.

How-to:

1) Install with Synaptic (apt-get if you prefer) packages; autoconf, automake, libtool, hwdata, xorg-dev, xorg-docs, libdrm-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev.

2) Download and extract xf86-video-intel version 2.7-rc1 driver and drm version 2.4.5 library.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...6-video-intel/
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...2.4.5-0ubuntu2

3) Compile drm library
3.0 cd to your drm directory
3.1 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
3.2 Edit the "libtool" file and comment 4 lines around the "...directory not ending...." text (if construction that avoids installing on /usr/lib).
3.3 $ sudo make install
You'll see the drm version 2.4.5 library installed on /usr/lib.

4) Compile xf86-video-intel driver
4.0 cd to your xf86-video-intel directory
4.1 $ $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
4.2 Install or reinstall mesa-common-dev package
$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install mesa-common-dev
4.3 $ sudo make
4.4 $ sudo make install

Peio

[mattsimis]

Havent tried your suggestion yet, but thanks for posting. I lot more people than have replied are waiting on this fix!

[beowulf573]

Thanks for posting the deb files, I built a pc to run Boxee with this board over the weekend and your files saved the day.

I noticed xrandr listed quite a few modes but only a few actually would sync up for me. I was able to find one that worked reliably so I'm good to go, but I'm curious if other folks ran into the same issue.

[nazarener]

thanks a lot peioazkarate.

i was trying to fix it with the advice from fzzz. but somehow i couldnt get the intel package compiled, didnt know i need the drm library and other stuff. however works like a charm now.

[dainsane1]

greetings thanks for the deb files

just have one issue. i get an error when i try to install them.

"error: dependency is not satisfiable: libpciaccess0"

so i figured no prob i just have to drop it in and i will be fine
no luck package is there but i still get the error

perhaps i'm daft and missing something?

just double click the deb file right?


the other method i got as far as installing the packages but then am ?????? when it comes to compiling things have never had Make work successfully for me.

[MikeInParadise]

Because I see the Intel's guys are working on this driver, Instead of apply the patch made by Wang, I solved the problems using the version 2.7-rc1 of the xf86-video-intel.
Now the s-video out works great!! on my Philips TV, 29"CRT.

How-to:

1) Install with Synaptic (apt-get if you prefer) packages; autoconf, automake, libtool, hwdata, xorg-dev, xorg-docs, libdrm-dev, libgl1-mesa-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev.

2) Download and extract xf86-video-intel version 2.7-rc1 driver and drm version 2.4.5 library.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...6-video-intel/
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...2.4.5-0ubuntu2

3) Compile drm library
3.0 cd to your drm directory
3.1 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
3.2 Edit the "libtool" file and comment 4 lines around the "...directory not ending...." text (if construction that avoids installing on /usr/lib).
3.3 $ sudo make install
You'll see the drm version 2.4.5 library installed on /usr/lib.

4) Compile xf86-video-intel driver
4.0 cd to your xf86-video-intel directory
4.1 $ $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
4.2 Install or reinstall mesa-common-dev package
$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install mesa-common-dev
4.3 $ sudo make
4.4 $ sudo make install

Peio

Thank you so much for this...Even though I had no idea what I was doing I followed the instructions after downloading the Archive Manager to unpack the downloads and then followed the instructions and after the first boot I started getting something on the SVideo even though the Sync was out..

I replaced the /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the one below and rebooted again ....

I put xorg.txt (need to rename to xorg.conf) and 2 deb files for Ubuntu 8.10, i386 at

xorg.txt http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rdbdzqyzkuj
dbg deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ozfi3t4xkz4
deb http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uzyzfqdnmy4

Drop me an email if you have trouble downloading the files and I can email them in return.

And Bob's your Uncle I have SVideo out.



I am using my Video Camcorder for testing SVideo out before moving the PC to the family room.

The days of my Windows Media Center Computer are numbered.

I have the Myth Box reading all the media from my WindowsHomeServer which also is built using this same Atom Mother Board:


Thank You so much guys!!!!!