How to get TV-Out working on ATI graphic cards
This HOWTO should help you enable TV-Out support on your ATI Radeon or ATI Rage based ThinkPad.
Contents
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
- ThinkPad A30p