When trying to activate tv-out on my laptop with gnome-display-properties, nothing happens! After starting g-d-p I see only Laptop 15" display but nothing else. This output is printed: [root@localhost ~]# gnome-display-properties CRTC 4a Timestamp: 250297 CRTC 4b Timestamp: 250297 Output 4c Timestamp: 250297 Output 4d Timestamp: 250297 Output 4e Timestamp: 250297 Output 4f Timestamp: 250297 output VGA-0 off: -1 -1 -1 -1 output LVDS on: 0 0 1280 800 output S-video off: -1 -1 -1 -1 output DVI-0 off: -1 -1 -1 -1 sorting Close On command line sth like these work: # On xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard pal xrandr --output S-video --off xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 # Off xrandr --output S-video --off Please notice that one needs to be able to set the correct TV standard, too! Tested with control-center-2.22.0-4.fc9.i386.
Now with control-center-2.22.1-2.fc9.i386 I see a "Detect Displays" button. When pressed, TV flashes and sometimes a second display is added to g-d-p central screen. However, only button that seems to have some effect is "Close". For example, setting lower resolution for laptop and pressing Apply, nothing happens. Also, when restarting g-d-p, old settings are lost. Cheers!
control-center-2.22.1-4.fc9.i386 is better, I've even something from my TV! However, it works more or less without logic etc so I'll test a bit later next time. Thanks!
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
See also related bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443906 Can you give more details on your video chipset, xorg driver and laptop model?
My laptop is an Acer Aspire 1690 with ATI Mobility Radeon X700 using the ati driver. My television is using the PAL standard so using PAL is also a must for me. I'm using Fedora 9 now and the situation is as described above. With WinXP and from command line things work.
Created attachment 319452 [details] xrandr output from F10Beta on Acer Aspire 1690
Tested this with F10Beta. g-p-d looks nicer but now for some reason xrandr does not realize that tv-out is connected to my telly. Attaching xrandr output from F10Beta on Acer Aspire 1690.
Actually the whole tv-out is missing with my ATI card, I opened Bug 465607 for that.
This bug has been triaged
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
> Actually the whole tv-out is missing with my ATI card, > I opened Bug 465607 for that. This is still the case, so obviously this bug is present, too. After Bug 465607 is resolved it makes sense to get back to this, not at all earlier.
(In reply to comment #11) > > Actually the whole tv-out is missing with my ATI card, > > I opened Bug 465607 for that. > > This is still the case, so obviously this bug is present, too. After Bug 465607 > is resolved it makes sense to get back to this, not at all earlier. This problem also occurs with Intel graphics, so the last comment is not necessarily true.
FWIW, I was able to test with VGA and in that g-d-p seems to be working almost perfectly: the additional display is there, it can be turned on and off. However, the GUI is a bit flaky but that is another matter.
I guess the problem actually is that there's no support for TV-Out in gnome-display-properties at all (or in gnome-desktop for that matter). Unfortunately my old laptop only has VGA output, and the more recent one has an HDMI one, so I won't be the one fixing this.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The current situation with Fedora 12 Beta / Rawhide is that with my ATI card this seems to work. I wonder what happens with Intel card, see comment #12.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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