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{{NOTE|Should work for other Radeon/Rage chips, but I only tried it on my A30p  with an ATI Radeon Mobility M6 chip}}
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This HOWTO should help you enable TV-Out support on your ATI Radeon or ATI Rage based ThinkPad.
  
Get the latest version of the [[http://gatos.sf.net GATOS]] drivers for your Xserver. The ati.2 driver is a replacement for the one provided with the respective xserver distribution. For Xorg the ati.2 drivers are already contained within the latest releases. Just copy them to the given directories.  
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==Get the driver==
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===XFree86==
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Get the latest version of the [[http://gatos.sf.net GATOS]] ati.2 driver for your version of XFree86.
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The ati.2 driver is a replacement for the one provided with the respective XFree86 distribution.
  
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===Xorg===
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For Xorg the ati.2 drivers are already contained within the latest releases. Just copy them to the given directories.
  
 
== XServer configuration file ==
 
== XServer configuration file ==
 
 
The documentation for the driver explains, that you have to add a line to the device section of your graphics adapter:
 
The documentation for the driver explains, that you have to add a line to the device section of your graphics adapter:
  
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Option "TVOutput" "YYY"
Option "TVOutput" "YYY"
 
</pre>
 
 
 
where ''YYY'' is replaced by the desired video norm. Here is a list of the recognized names:
 
  
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where <tt>YYY</tt> is replaced by the desired video norm. Options are:
 
* NTSC
 
* NTSC
 
* NTSC-J
 
* NTSC-J
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* PAL-N
 
* PAL-N
 
* PAL-60
 
* PAL-60
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==ThinkPads this has been successfully tested on==
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*ThinkPad {{A30p}}

Revision as of 16:34, 15 August 2005

This HOWTO should help you enable TV-Out support on your ATI Radeon or ATI Rage based ThinkPad.

Get the driver

=XFree86

Get the latest version of the [GATOS] ati.2 driver for your version of XFree86. The ati.2 driver is a replacement for the one provided with the respective XFree86 distribution.

Xorg

For Xorg the ati.2 drivers are already contained within the latest releases. Just copy them to the given directories.

XServer configuration file

The documentation for the driver explains, that you have to add a line to the device section of your graphics adapter:

Option "TVOutput" "YYY"

where YYY is replaced by the desired video norm. Options are:

  • NTSC
  • NTSC-J
  • PAL
  • PAL-CN
  • PAL-M
  • PAL-N
  • PAL-60

ThinkPads this has been successfully tested on