ATI Control Panel Settings Location Question

[rdvaughan]

If you do find out where the Component Video settings are stored please post or PM me. You obviously have had your component video output working at some time.

Unfortunately I have never found the correct settings which I suspect are due to my HDTV not returning acceptable EDID information. This means that there are no selectable HD formats (e.g. 720p 1280x720) to choose from in the Catalyst Control Center. If you find the file for those settings may be I can edit and force the selections to be available in the Catalyst Control Center.

Thanks

[Christian_L]

Sorry, I have no experience with that. You may want to play with these aticonfig settings given by aticonfig --help (use cp amdpcsdb amdpcsdb.sav, change settings with aticonfig and then type diff amdpcsdb amdpcsdb.sav to check whether the settings were written to amdpcsdb):

Component video dongle options:
Following options are used for query and set dongles for a component video. These options will be effective immediately. Other options on the same command line will be ignored.
--query-cvdongle
query dongle setting informations of the component video.
--set-cvdongle=VALUE
set the custom override value of the CV dongle.
--reset-cvdongle
reset the custom override setting(to zero)of the CV dongle.

Component video customized mode options:
Following options are used for query and set customized mode for component video. These options will be effective immediately. Other options on the same command line will be ignored.
--query-cvmode
query customized modes for component video.
--add-cvmode=WIDTH,HEIGHT,FLAGS,BASEWIDTH,BASEDHEIGHT,RE FRESH.
add a customized mode for component video.
--validate-cvmode=WIDTH,HEIGHT,FLAGS,BASEWIDTH,BASEHEIGHT,REF RESH.
validate a customized mode for component video.
--delete-cvmode=INDEX
delete one customized mode for component video.

Check also the other files in the /etc/ati directory.

[talon95]

Thanks guys. That's part of what I was looking for. Here's the amdpcsdb file on my system:

AMDPCSDBV1
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/LibXUtil/Display1]
Map=V0
Enable=V0
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/LibXUtil/Display2]
Enable=V1
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/LDC]
OverrideDongle=V1
HelpDisabled=V0
LinkedAllSliders:1=V1
LinkedAllSliders:2=V1
LastViewedPage=SFormats
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/DDX]
DesktopSetup=Ssingle
EnableMonitor=Scv
VideoOverlay=Son
OpenGLOverlay=Soff
TVStandard=SSCART
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/DDX/cv/attribute]
brightness=V0
contrast=V100
[AMDPCSROOT/SYSTEM/DDX/cv/dongleUseOverride]
OverrideVal=V73

What I don't see is the cvdongle custom resolution settings that you can see from aticonfig

Customize mode 0 : flags 0x7, width 1152, height 648, baseWidth 1280, baseheight 720, refresh 60.
Customize mode 1 : flags 0x13, width 1280, height 720, baseWidth 1280, baseheight 720, refresh 60.
Customize mode 2 : flags 0xe, width 1776, height 1000, baseWidth 1920, baseheight 1080, refresh 30.
Customize mode 3 : flags 0x1a, width 1920, height 1080, baseWidth 1920, baseheight 1080, refresh 30.
Total 4 customized modes found for component video.

Any idea where these are stored?

I'm asking this because last weekend I was trying to switch between my HDTV on the dongle to my projector on VGA. In the process, the settings for the dongle got hosed and I couldn't get an image on my HDTV. Since I couldn't locate the settings files, I ended up doing a full system restore from a backup. That worked but it would be nice to be able to restore just the settings or edit them from the command line.

[Christian_L]

/etc/ati/amdpcsdb should be a text file, otherwise look for another file starting with amd... under /etc/*/ (I can't check this right now, because I don't have my ATI laptop with me at the moment). Settings seem to be the same as for aticonfig, with values preceeded by an S or V (for "string" or "value"), like "Strue" or "V1".

that basically means there is no support for individual (per-user) settings?

Don't know. You may want to change something as non-root in amdcccle and then check whether a file was edited in your home directory ("ls -latr ~").

[yoshi314]

that basically means there is no support for individual (per-user) settings?

[ejs1920]

Edit: yes, what Christian L said - there's also a file /etc/ati/amdpcsdb that is used by the Catalyst Control Center for some settings.

I think it's a binary file, not user editable, but I'm not running the proprietary drivers right now so I can't check.

[Christian_L]

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and the 7.11 ATI drivers.

When using the control panel to enable/disable displays, where are the settings saved?

There are several actions (like switching displays) that do not modify the xorg.conf file, but the settings do stick after a reboot.

They're obviously using another config file, but I've been unable to locate it.

Thanks

For some strange reason, these settings are saved in /etc/ati/amdpcsdb...

[Dandel]

that is done via the aticonfig tool... sorry to say, but that's how it happens... all i can say though is that after modifying said settings restart the xserver and it'll be applied right away.

[talon95]

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 and the 7.11 ATI drivers.

When using the control panel to enable/disable displays, where are the settings saved?

There are several actions (like switching displays) that do not modify the xorg.conf file, but the settings do stick after a reboot.

They're obviously using another config file, but I've been unable to locate it.

Thanks