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<p>Kostmo: /* ThinkPads this has been successfully tested on */</p> <hr /> <div>This HOWTO should help you enable TV-Out support on your ATI Radeon or ATI Rage based ThinkPad.<br /> <br /> {{NOTE|This page is not applicable to recent ATI Radeon Mobility chips. See [[ATI Mobility Radeon X300]] for a discussion.}}<br /> <br /> == Using the GATOS driver ==<br /> <br /> At the [http://gatos.sf.net/ GATOS webpage] one can find the ati.2 driver, a drm-module for the kernel and some additional software. When combined this suffice to get the TV-Out of ATI Radeon (Mobility) chips activated. Yet the information and the software there seem to be a bit out of date.<br /> <br /> ==Using atitvout==<br /> <br /> Another approach is by using the <br /> [[atitvout]] tool<br /> provided (but no longer maintained) by Lennart Poettering.<br /> <br /> The provided archive contains a source release which can be compiled and installed by {{cmdroot|make &amp;&amp; make install}} within the extracted directory. The atitvout tool will then be installed to {{path|/usr/local/sbin/atitvout}}.<br /> <br /> The tool uses the VESA Bios Extensions (VBE) which are initialized only once during power on. So if you want to use the TV-out, be sure to get the corresponding video device such as a tv connected before powering your ThinkPad. Under some circumstances the tool fails to communicate properly with the VBE Bios. By issuing {{cmduser|atitvout -f t}} you activate the SVideo output port. The command {{cmduser|atitvout -f l}} you change the graphics output back to the LCD.<br /> <br /> The atitvout doesn't seem to work on higher resolutions. To send a Xserver to a connected video device, it is possible to start a second Xserver e.g. with {{cmduser|startx -- :1 -xf86config XF86Config-4_reduced-resolution}}. For resolutions up to 1024x768 the switching should work fine.<br /> <br /> While this works very well for ordinary X applications, playing video files, say with mplayer or xine might result in wrong aspect ratio or otherwise distorted output.<br /> <br /> Switch to a text console (preferably a non framebufferd one) and issue an {{cmduser|atitvout -f t}}. Then start {{cmduser| mplayer -vo svga}} and the filename and other options needed. After enjoying the show, switch back with {{cmduser|atitvout -f l}}.<br /> <br /> <br /> === ThinkPads/Other laptops this has been successfully tested on ===<br /> *{{A30p}}<br /> *Compaq Evo N800v</div>

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