Re: TV-out in X = white screen

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 02/25/04


Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:19:38 -0500

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:30:47 GMT, Mitchua
  <mitchuaNOSPAM@hush.com> wrote:
> I have Mandrake 9.1 running on a PIII-550 system with an ATI Mach 64II+DVD
> with NTSC TV-out. When I connect it to the TV I see the kernel boot up,
> etc. but the moment X launches I get a white screen on the TV. Is there a
> setting I'm missing to get it to display on the 2nd monitor/TV? Is this an
> issue with X that might be resolved with a newer version? Is this simply a
> driver issue?
>
You probably need to set up X so that the horizontal and vertical scan
rates are compatible with NTSC: HorizSync=15.75, VRefresh=60,
resolution 320x400 or so.

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