[Savage40] TV out and norms ?

[Alex Deucher]

--- Pierre Mauduit <mauduitpi at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried last week to manage the tv out of my laptop with s3switch
> (thanks Tim for this prog ;-)), but i could not succeed in switching
> the
> norm to secam (I'm probably the only french guy on the list, right?),
> neither to Pal, only NTSC and NTSC japan;
> 
> 
> Relying on the manpage, "To change the format of the TV signal,
> specify
> either  ntscj,  ntsc  or pal.  These words will be silently ignored
> on
> systems where a TV is not attached or not possible." 
> 
> Since I succeeded in getting an image on my TV, I think it might be
> possible to switch to the correct video mode, at least Pal, which
> must
> be compatible with my equipments. I would like to know if somebody
> already has the problem and how to correct it.
> 
> My xserver is the debian package of Xorg, and here is the lspci
> output
> of my card (My laptop is an Acer Aspire 1310) :
>  0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
> KM266/KL266] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help. Infortunatly, I could not test it
> again
> before a long time, since I have no tv anymore here. But when I could
> retry I'll let you know.
> 

you should be able to set the tv-out norm via the bios interface used
by s3switch and the Xorg savage driver.  If you look at the Xorg savage
driver or the s3switch source code, you should be able to look at the
code that sets the tv-standard and try other bit combos to set secam. 
This all assumes the tv-encoder used with your laptop supports secam
(does it work in windows?).

Alex

> -- 
> Pierre
> 
> 



	
		
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