Author Topic: ATI video cards and video out (S-Video)  (Read 2345 times)

azop

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ATI video cards and video out (S-Video)
« on: September 04, 2007, 05:03:35 am »
I've playing around with LinuxMCE on my workstation before I dive into spending money.  I have two ATI video cards...both with S-Video out.  During the console bootup and pre-X I can see images just fine on my Apex TV.  However when I start X and I can no longer see anything besides streaking on the TV.  I've changed the resolutions and everything I can think of with the Resolution Settings (Step 1).  I've changed the jumper from PAL to NTSC on one of my ATI cards and still having streaking and I can't even begin to see video.

Should I look at a NVIDIA card?  I don't care about spending the $40 for a video card if I know that's the problem...

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Re: ATI video cards and video out (S-Video)
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2007, 05:10:28 am »
ATI cards have been known to be tricky with render acceleration and 3D stuff (UI2 capabilities), but that's not the problem you're running into. Check the wiki.

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AVWizard

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Re: ATI video cards and video out (S-Video)
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2007, 02:19:04 am »
Did you resolve this issue? I am having the exact same problem!