Bug 120737 – ati-drivers-8.21.7 give black and white output on TV

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maciej Paszta 2006-01-28 08:52:53 UTC]

After upgrading to latest ati-drivers-8.21.7 screen on TV went black&white... in logs message that TV mode (ie PAL-D) couldn't be changed appears... after downgrading to 8.20.8 everything seems to be working all right (colo output)

emrge --info:

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile ML-28
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -ffast-math -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -ffast-math -msse3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en pl"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dri dvd dvdread eds emboss encode exif expat extras fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv idn ieee1384 imagemagic imagemagick imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg junit kde kqemu lcms libwww lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_en linguas_pl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS

[Comment 1 Oliver Walter 2006-01-28 10:13:51 UTC]

I am experienceing the same Problem.

My Configuration is the following:
---
        Identifier  "ATI Graphics Adapter"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option      "no_accel" "no"
        Option      "no_dri" "no"
        Option      "mtrr" "off"
        Option      "DesktopSetup" "Horizontal"
        Option      "ScreenOverlap" "0"
        Option      "TVFormat" "PAL-B"
        Option      "TVStandard" "VIDEO"
        Option      "TVHSizeAdj" "0"
        Option      "TVVSizeAdj" "0"
        Option      "TVHPosAdj" "0"
        Option      "TVVPosAdj" "0"
        Option      "TVHStartAdj" "0"
        Option      "TVColorAdj" "0"
        Option      "GammaCorrectionI" "0x06419064"
        Option      "GammaCorrectionII" "0x08621886"
        Option      "Capabilities" "0x00000000"
        Option      "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"
        Option      "VideoOverlay" "on"
        Option      "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
        Option      "CenterMode" "off"
        Option      "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
        Option      "Stereo" "off"
        Option      "StereoSyncEnable" "1"
        Option      "FSAAEnable" "no"
        Option      "FSAAScale" "1"
        Option      "FSAADisableGamma" "no"
        Option      "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"
        Option      "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"
        Option      "UseFastTLS" "0"
        Option      "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"
        Option      "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"
        Option      "ForceGenericCPU" "no"
        Option      "PowerState" "1"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
---

With the "old" driver startup looks like this:
(**) fglrx(0): Change to Configured TV Format PAL-B
(**) fglrx(0): TV HSizeAdj: 0

With the new one I get an additional message:
(**) fglrx(0): Change to Configured TV Format PAL-B
(EE) fglrx(0): === [R200DALSetDisplayConfig] === CWDDC DisplaySetConfig failed: 6
(**) fglrx(0): TV HSizeAdj: 0

The (EE) line happens at the same time/place where an error message is displayed if you set the "TVStandard" to a wrong value.

Somehow there may be a Problem setting the "TVStandard".

[Comment 2 Brian Kroth 2006-02-02 21:06:31 UTC]

I also have a problem with this.  It loads X alright, but the TV is blue, like it does when there's nothing to display.  After doing "DISPLAY=:0.1 xvidtune -show" I noticed that its setting a really strange resolution for the TV, something like 2176x480 rather than 1024x768 like I've been telling it to for the past year or so.  Anyone have any thoughts?

[Comment 3 Oliver Walter 2006-06-18 03:32:11 UTC]

color on TV out is back (working) since version 8.25.18.
So i would say this bug can be closed.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-11-10 12:49:10 UTC]

Reopen if you can reproduce with up-to-date drivers versions. Thanks.