Re: S-Video on Debian
Dear Brian,
Thanks for helping me out.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:04:50PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 20:33:33 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
> > Here's what I have:
> >
> > TV1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> > 0mm x 0mm
> > 848x480 30.0 +
> > 640x480 30.0 +
> > 1024x768 30.0
> > 800x600 30.0* 60.3
>
> This tells you
> * the connection to the TV has been detected
> * there are two preferred modes (shown by the '+')
> * the current mode is 800x600 (shown by the '*')
Fair. This makes sense.
> > xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 --crtc 1
>
> '--crtc 1' isn't really required.
Well, with, or without, nothing really appears on the TV.
> > xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1
[snip]
> Forget about this for the moment. I should have been clearer and
> explained I use xvattr to send video to the TV with vlc. It is of no
> consequence if nothing appears on the TV screen in the first place). The
> command for you to use to see a portion of your computer screen on the
> TV (because the TV is detected) is
>
> xrandr --output TV1 --mode 800x600 (or --mode 848x480 etc)
Well, this didn't really send the computer screen to the TV. I'll
proceed to the debugging information.
> It might be useful for us to see the outputs of 'xrandr --verbose' and
> 'lspci' for the video card.
Here are the graphics card details from lspci -vvv:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 45
Region 0: Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Region 4: I/O ports at eff8 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Address: fee0300c Data: 4191
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Bridge: PM- B3+
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell Device 022f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at feb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Bridge: PM- B3+
The relevant portion of xrandr --verbose is:
TV1 connected 640x480+0+0 (0x3c8) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
Identifier: 0x44
Timestamp: 148418469
Subpixel: unknown
Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0
Brightness: 1.0
Clones:
CRTC: 0
CRTCs: 0 1
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
bottom margin: 37 (0x00000025) range: (0,100)
right margin: 46 (0x0000002e) range: (0,100)
top margin: 36 (0x00000024) range: (0,100)
left margin: 54 (0x00000036) range: (0,100)
mode: NTSC-M
supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M
PAL-N PAL 480p@59.94Hz 480p@60Hz
576p 720p@60Hz 720p@59.94Hz 720p@50Hz
1080i@50Hz 1080i@60Hz 1080i@59.94H
848x480 (0x3c7) 14.5MHz +preferred
h: width 848 start 849 end 912 total 944 skew 0 clock 15.4KHz
v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz
640x480 (0x3c8) 11.3MHz *current +preferred
h: width 640 start 641 end 704 total 736 skew 0 clock 15.4KHz
v: height 480 start 481 end 512 total 513 clock 30.0Hz
1024x768 (0x3c9) 26.9MHz
h: width 1024 start 1025 end 1088 total 1120 skew 0 clock 24.0KHz
v: height 768 start 769 end 800 total 801 clock 30.0Hz
800x600 (0x3ca) 17.0MHz
h: width 800 start 801 end 864 total 896 skew 0 clock 19.0KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 632 total 633 clock 30.0Hz
800x600 (0x47) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz
Please let me know if you have other suggestions. Again, I'll keep trying on my own.
Thanks!
Kumar
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