Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TV output turn on Message-ID: <20021109231142.P9701-100000@topperwein.pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20021109161127.A54441@klentaq.com>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Wayne M Barnes wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD,
>
> My Dell laptop has a ATI M3 video card, with an S-video output.
>
> How do I turn on the S-video output with my FreeBSD 4.7-stable?
>
> On Windows98 I can turn on output to the TV thru the S-video by
> boring down to advanced settings/display, and setting some options,
> if the TV is connected to the S-video port.
>
> I "need" this on FreeBSD in order to run ogle to watch a European DVD
> which I can't seem to watch any other ways which I have tried, but won't
> go into here.
>
> Could this be an option in my X11/XF86Config file? Do you
> suppose 'XFree86 -configure' would probe the TV if it were connected
> at the time?
This functionality is not yet supported in XFree86.
*IF* you can hack v4l (video4linux) to work on FreeBSD, then the
GATOS project's atitvout package might help you. You will need drm
working as well.
You could, of course, just watch the DVD on your laptop.
--
Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com
Principal Consultant
PennaSoft Corporation
chris@pennasoft.com
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