I've got a Asus L8L Notebook with a Radeon mobile. To switch to TV-Out I use a key combination which calls the bios to switch TV-Out on. This works without any additional drivers and it usually works for every display resolution. As far as I know, there aren't any drivers available for that except for the atitvout which calls the bios, too. Didn't try that but I don't expect any differences since both work with the bios. The Output was displayed nice up to Xfree 4.2.1-r2. But it doesn't work any more for Xfree 4.3.0-r2 (and iirc for 4.3.0-r1). It switches correctly to TV-Out but the colors are bad, it looks as if the colors were displayed at a wrong color depth with a wrong hue. If I switch back to LCD it displays the hue correctly but it is too bright (e.g. black -> grey) If I restart XFree, the colors are still too bright, but they are shown correctly if I restart the whole Laptop. I am using the radeon driver and direct rendering with the xfree-drm kernel module. I didn't try it with the ati driver because I need OpenGL and drm but if you think it is essential to know wheter it works with the ati driver please let me know. All the drivers mentioned refer to the OpenSource drivers, not the closed source ones. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u world (updates xfree 4.2.1-r2 -> xfree 4.3.0-r2) 2. Switch TV-Out of the Radeon Mobile M6 LY on using the key combination Actual Results: Colors are displayed incorrectly on the TV and they are too bright after switching back Expected Results: Set the colors correctly after switching to TV-Out (I think leaving them alone would be best) Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU 1200MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ " CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/ 3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 3dnow apm avi cups gif libg++ mikmod nls pdflib quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb sla ng arts bonobo svga tcltk java guile gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib qt motif mozilla cdr X gtk gnome -kde aalib acpi cjk crypt dvd encode jpeg mmx opengl mpeg ncurses oggvorbis oss png readline sdl tetex xv usb" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
There are known problems about tv out from upstream (bug 16 from bugs.xfree.org) maybe yours is related. (I don't have way to reproduce it nor to find solution but I take a look on that bug)
I'm sorry but the bugreport you mentioned is not related to the problem I'm experiencing. My problem isn't listed at bugs.xfree.org so far. Maybe I should report it there, too but I haven't got an account there, yet.
can you try xfree-4.3.0-r3?
Sorry it took me so long. Had too much real life work to do :-( Yes I tried xfree-4.3.0-r3, but the problem remains. If I remember correctly, the colors looked a bit more weired, but don't rely on this too much since the change isn't big at all if it really exists. Switching (re-emerging) to xfree-4.2.1-r2 worked again around it, so it definitely isn't the hardware.
Please reopen and change the summary if this is still a problem with >=xorg-x11-6.8.0.
