From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 6:23:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bong.andmann.eu.org (world.peace.is [194.144.170.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2377937B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andmann@bong.andmann.eu.org) Received: (from andmann@localhost) by bong.andmann.eu.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f56DLwd03330; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:21:58 GMT Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:21:57 +0000 From: "David S. Geirsson" To: midiostri@in.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATI rage 128 connected to a tv-set Message-ID: <20010606132157.A3273@bong.andmann.eu.org> References: <6f0701c0ee86$868e3970$0205030a@internal.ramnet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <6f0701c0ee86$868e3970$0205030a@internal.ramnet.gr>; from midiostri@in.gr on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:45:11PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You should be sure that you are running at 640x400 (heard somewhere that 800x600 works too, not sure thought). Also, you MUST run at 60hz when outputting to a TV. All the advice I can give you. :) On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:45:11PM +0300, midiostri@in.gr wrote: > Hi, > > I want to connect my freebsd box to a tv-set. > So, I got myself an "ATI rage 128" card (has S-video output) and, > after Ted's suggestion a TView gold*, to try this too. > > I've tried them both and TView seems to work, more or less, OK. > > My question concerns the ATI card: > this gives a more acceptable quality than TView but it > won't display XWindows. When I startx, my tv-set just goes black. > > I've setup the Xserver with lots of different monitor-settings > but when I try to run XWindows I get nothing but blackness on > the tv. > > Any advise/suggestion will be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dimitri > > > *TView is an extra apparatus that connects the tv-set to the > graphics card. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Davíð Steinn Geirsson andmann@andmann.eu.org (354)-8696608 "Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message