ati xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.26.18-1.lvn5 no tv?

William Murray W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk
Thu Aug 3 21:48:42 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:06 +0100, William Murray wrote:
>    Hello all,
>             I just tried to watch a DVD on TV from my Dell ATI laptop,
> and I was no longer able to switch output on the fly.  I guess it is
> connected with the new ATI driver,
> xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-8.26.18-1.lvn5 
> When I type:
>  aticonfig --enable-monitor=lvds,tv
> Which worked nicely with the previous version I get
> ati_dm: FGLRX_EnableDisplays failed when try to enable display: 6.
> 
> I needed to re-boot (maybe I should have tried restarting X) to connect
> to the TV.
>    Did anyone else encounter this - and work out how to fix it?
>              Bill
  Ah..I see. Known problem with this release. Bother. And livna doesn't
package the previous one for the current kernel. Ah well, live with it.
                Bill




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