I stumbled upon a problem what I have seen on several places on the internet. But somehow noone seems to file the bug report. There is a machine called Scaleo E of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. This machine has an on board 915G and a pci express card with a DVI-D and a SCART connector on it. As far as I read on the internet this card is just an additional output for the on board graphics (?) I installed debian Etch, using the older i810 server. That works fine and in the Xorg.0.log there is a output TV and all seems to work. (except actually mythtv TV output, but thats an other issue). So I updated to debian Lenny and now there is xorg 7.3+16, intel 2.3.2-2+lenny4 If I start Xorg now the TV isn't right in sync. The picture is just flickering and rolling diagonal and you can't actually use it somehow. In Xorg.0.log the connectors are detected as VGA (I suspect the onboard output), TMDS-1 and VGA-2, weras VGA-2 is connected. But this VGA-2 should be a TV. I played around a bit with Modlines with no real success. But I reinstalled Etch to file this bug report.
Created attachment 19070 [details] i810 Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 19071 [details] intel Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 19072 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 19073 [details] output of 'lspci -vvv'
"pci express card" should be SDVO card. And it's a known issue that SDVO TV not supported. See bug#9992. But I'm not sure if VGA-2 detection is expected. I'll let Zhenyu to decide if this is just dup with bug#9992.
"VGA-2" normally means SDVO-VGA, that's VGA port on SDVO card. yeah, this is another SDVO TV support issue. Frank, which output do you see this issue? scart or svideo? Does other outputs VGA/DVI work? For SDVO TV support, you'd better to try 2.4.2 driver or latest git master, which does have some support for it. 2.3.2 is not expected to work well with this.
I wonder why it worked with i810 driver as there was no SDVO support AFAIK... It is a SCART output directly connected to the SDVO card. I just tried 2.4.2 (debian experimental) but the result is even worse. The Xserver crashed leaving a screen with read flickering patterns. I attach the Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 19097 [details] intel 2.4.2 Xorg.0.log
Could you apply this patch http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=18969 and try again?
Yeah, tried right now, but didn't change anything. Maybe I should go back to i810 driver and try to solve the issues there, at least until TV out is officially supported.
frank, what output does your machine have? searching the internet shows that it has more outputs than you described. can you confirm?(In reply to comment #10) > Yeah, tried right now, but didn't change anything. > > Maybe I should go back to i810 driver and try to solve the issues there, at > least until TV out is officially supported. > Frank, please attach the xorg log with zhenyu's patch applied anyway. thanks.
(In reply to comment #6) > "VGA-2" normally means SDVO-VGA, that's VGA port on SDVO card. > > yeah, this is another SDVO TV support issue. Frank, which output do you see > this issue? scart or svideo? Does other outputs VGA/DVI work? > > For SDVO TV support, you'd better to try 2.4.2 driver or latest git master, > which does have some support for it. 2.3.2 is not expected to work well with > this. > zhenyu, I don't see TV here, if the SDVO card is taken as a combo of DVI and VGA..
(In reply to comment #11) > frank, what output does your machine have? searching the internet shows that it > has more outputs than you described. can you confirm?(In reply to comment #10) This machine has a covered VGA output on board output - labeled Do not remove -, an DVI-D output on SDVO card an an SCART Output, which is plugged in the SDVO card. > > Yeah, tried right now, but didn't change anything. > > > > Maybe I should go back to i810 driver and try to solve the issues there, at > > least until TV out is officially supported. > > > > Frank, please attach the xorg log with zhenyu's patch applied anyway. thanks. I cannot because at the moment I use the i810 driver. But it did only differ in the addresses of the crash. > zhenyu, I don't see TV here, if the SDVO card is taken as a combo of DVI and VGA.. As you see in the i810 Xorg.0.log the second VGA is really the TV Out via SCART
Frank, zhenyu asked you in comment# 6 if VGA or DVI work? would you please answer that. you said the VGA connector is covered by a label. Do you mean you can't connect a VGA monitor to it? Also, please add option "ModeDebug" "yes" to driver section in conf file and attach the new xorg.log. thanks.
(In reply to comment #14) > Frank, zhenyu asked you in comment# 6 if VGA or DVI work? would you please > answer that. Sure: When I plug a monitor on vga, it works. I don't have an DVI Device, so I cannot make sure it is working as well. > you said the VGA connector is covered by a label. Do you mean you can't connect > a VGA monitor to it? You can, when you take a screwdriver and remove the "do not remove" cover... ;) > Also, please add option "ModeDebug" "yes" to driver section in conf file and > attach the new xorg.log. As I already said, I have not installed the intel driver anymore as I need a system that just works. But I can try with a live CD in the next days and I can post that xorg.log... cheers
(In reply to comment #15) > (In reply to comment #14) > > Frank, zhenyu asked you in comment# 6 if VGA or DVI work? would you please > > answer that. > > Sure: When I plug a monitor on vga, it works. I don't have an DVI Device, so I > cannot make sure it is working as well. > > > you said the VGA connector is covered by a label. Do you mean you can't connect > > a VGA monitor to it? > > You can, when you take a screwdriver and remove the "do not remove" cover... ;) Interesting.. anyway, it works. let's forget it ... > > > Also, please add option "ModeDebug" "yes" to driver section in conf file and > > attach the new xorg.log. > > As I already said, I have not installed the intel driver anymore as I need a > system that just works. But I can try with a live CD in the next days and I can > post that xorg.log... > > cheers > Got any chance to collect a log with ModeDebug turns on?
ping frank...
Created attachment 22087 [details] intel 2.6.0 Xorg.0.log
Had time to install debian sid in a chroot environment on the same machine. I installed xserver-xorg-video-intel from experimental and tried it. As I read the log right it doesn't even detect the SCART out anymore. HTH
SDVOC is not detected on an ADD2 card...we need to fix this first, then check how to enable the SDVO-TV...re-assign to ma ling
hi Frank I think your SCART connector is plugged into SDVOC,because log says sdvob doesn't attached display(If I was wrong, please correct me). And your chipset is i915, SDVOC is not reserved on that platform. Could you try adding option ForceSDVODetect true in device section of xorg.conf, then paste corresponding Xorg log file with Modedebug option. Thanks Ma Ling
Created attachment 22492 [details] log with ForceSDVODetect Ok, here it comes. Seems like it detects some TV out now... but still no viewable picture...
Good, we may need a patch to fix it.. To get a viewable display on your TV, Let's wait for zhenyu's patch of SDVO TV enabling...
Created attachment 22931 [details] [review] please try the patch on your machine, thanks. hi Frank, This patch is our latest patch which intends to detect SDVO device precisly. Because we have not similar HW, would you please try it on your machine under the same environment with that of this bug #17698, then paset Xorg log file? Thanks a lot! Ma Ling
Sorry, had no time for doing this. Just wanted to say, that I switched to archlinux this week because I read about the intel-legacy drive there. Surprisingly the newest intel driver from the AUR works after I pathed PAL-G in like mentiones in bug 17776. I will supply an xorg.log as soon as I can... keep up the good work...
Created attachment 25186 [details] intel 2.7.0 Xorg.0.log
ok, Thanks for Zhenyus 's great sdvo-TV work, I will close the issue. Thanks Ma Ling
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