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TheLlama · 04-24-2006, 12:35 AM

Ugh... I've been struggling to get Savage 4 drivers working right on the unit. I need video for when I take the box inside. I had Framebuffer console running with normal vesa-tng drivers. Everything was working fine except nothing was output to the LCD. The chip has CRT and LCD outputs. The LCD output is hooked to a converter board which outputs Composite video and S-Video. So, my guess is nothing was running to the converter.

I found a program, s3switch, that is supposed to enable/disable the various outputs. CRT and LCD were already enabled but I tried enabling only LCD, and my monitor lost signal but nothing showed up on the TV. Enabling both makes the monitor run at a lower refresh rate, I guess to match what the LCD output uses. When I enable only CRT the monitor goes to my normal refresh rate. I can tell the refresh rates are changing because CRT causes the screen to be drawn to my configuration and BOTH causes the screen to draw distorted.

I wonder what is wrong... I hope it is just this converter and a new one will fix the problem. I was really hoping for TV-out.

04-24-2006, 12:35 AM	#70
TheLlama FLAC Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: All over the world Posts: 984	Ugh... I've been struggling to get Savage 4 drivers working right on the unit. I need video for when I take the box inside. I had Framebuffer console running with normal vesa-tng drivers. Everything was working fine except nothing was output to the LCD. The chip has CRT and LCD outputs. The LCD output is hooked to a converter board which outputs Composite video and S-Video. So, my guess is nothing was running to the converter. I found a program, s3switch, that is supposed to enable/disable the various outputs. CRT and LCD were already enabled but I tried enabling only LCD, and my monitor lost signal but nothing showed up on the TV. Enabling both makes the monitor run at a lower refresh rate, I guess to match what the LCD output uses. When I enable only CRT the monitor goes to my normal refresh rate. I can tell the refresh rates are changing because CRT causes the screen to be drawn to my configuration and BOTH causes the screen to draw distorted. I wonder what is wrong... I hope it is just this converter and a new one will fix the problem. I was really hoping for TV-out. Last edited by TheLlama; 04-24-2006 at 12:38 AM.