Anyway, w/ the all new and improved open source Xorg drivers (ati/radeon/r128/mach64) I thoufg I'd give it a try again. And lo and behold, it seemed to work pretty nice for a while. 3D support is great. TV out and overscanning (to get the TV screen completely filled).
I use XBMC for my mediacenter. Unfortunately that program does not use xv to draw it's video. What it does use? I don't know (yet) but it results in tearing of video.
Anyway, this is how I enable TV out on one screen (overlay!) and overscan. Wanna know what the commands mean? Just ask.
Code:
xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1 xrandr --output VGA-0 --off xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 xrandr --output S-video --set tv_horizontal_size 2 xrandr --output S-video --set tv_horizontal_position -5 xrandr --output S-video --set tv_vertical_position -3
Having said that: the radeon open source driver is really really really really really really good! Some say it's even better than the closed one because old Ati's (like mine) DO work w/ the open one.
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