{"id":120,"date":"2009-02-16T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-03-09T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:35:29","slug":"855gm-tv-out-not-supported-by-new-intel-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/855gm-tv-out-not-supported-by-new-intel-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"855GM tv-out not supported by new intel driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to connect my aging Inspiron 700m to my TV with S-Video, which has worked well in the past, only to discover that tv-out is no longer supported with the new intel driver (see this <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/xserver-xorg-video-intel\/+bug\/6270\">discussion at Ubuntu&#8217;s bug tracker <\/a>). And the old driver is no longer included in debian\/ubuntu\/sidux.<\/p>\n<p>I installed the xorg-video-intel-i810\u00c2\u00a0 driver from etch (now oldstable) with &#8211;force-conflicts; the newer versions are dummy packages for the intel driver. Then I copied over my old xorg.conf, but it still used the intel driver. Plus apt refuses to do anything because of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I will need to compile the xorg 7.1 source and install over the debian packages? What a f#*&amp;ing pain in the ass. Or maybe i810 is still maintained in 7.3+, but not packaged? More on this later when I find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I finally got old xorg installed, only to encounter worse bugs than no S-video out &#8211; I can&#8217;t get any dual head working. I suspect that 6.8 may work, but the older the release the harder it is to get it compiled. For now I will be booting into Windows XP whenever I need S-Video. I&#8217;d be curious to know if anyone has success with 6.8 (or any other solution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to connect my aging Inspiron 700m to my TV with S-Video, which has worked well in the past, only to discover that tv-out is no longer supported with the new intel driver (see this discussion at Ubuntu&#8217;s bug tracker ). And the old driver is no longer included in debian\/ubuntu\/sidux. I installed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bda.ath.cx\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}