Re: ATI PC2TV

[Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:25:53PM -0400, George Lenzer wrote:
> I noticed that the new XFree86 supports the ATI PC2TV card.  I am interested
> in using it's television out put to be able to set up a Linux based "set
> top" box.  I have tried playing around with the XF86Config file to get this
> to work, but I either get a scrambled screen or X errors when I tried to run
> X.  I booted the system into Windows and checked for the Hz and V refresh
> rates.  Windows says that at 640x480, the rates are:
> 
> Vert:61
> Horiz:37.8
> 
> When I enter those in for XF86Config, or valuse that are close and
> coresspond to the modelines, I just get and error saying there is no valid
> mode called 640x480.  What am I doing wrong?  I am sure this has got to

X is complaining that there is no 640x480 mode line defined in
/etc/X11/XF86Config.

Re-run Xconfigurator and select 640x480 as one of the modes you want,
or borrow a nice 640x480 mode from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/Monitors and
copy it into your "Monitor" section.

-- 
Steve Borho <sborho ststech com>