[Novalug] S-Video

[Dan Arico]

On Saturday 17 November 2007 09:48, DonJr wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 21:20 -0500, Dan Arico wrote:
> > I've got OpenSUSE 10.2 installed on a Thinkpad T30. What I want to do
> > is play
> > back a slide show to a TV set. I have an adaptor from s-video to
> > tvout. Is
> > there anything else I need to make this work?

>   (along with other possible useful related information):
> | S-Video / TV-Out
> | With a utility called atitvout you can control the ATI S-Video or CRT
> | output capabilities. However, for the S-Video to work, it has to be
> | connected before booting, otherwise you cannot make it work. Which
> | makes it rather hard to quickly use it in certain situations.
> |
> | With my ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 I can't get the TV-Out to work
> | properly. atitvout doesn't seem to support the card very well.
> | (I can probe some of it features, but cannot set anything.)
>
> So maybe this 'atitvout' util will work for you.

As it turns out, that's already in the OpenSUSE installation. That was the 
missing piece of the puzzle.

Dan Arico

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