On 2009/12/18 15:11 (GMT-0500) Adam Jimerson composed:
I am trying to configure a openSUSE 11.2 box as a HTPC, it has a ATI Radeon HD 3200 card in it. The only kind of display connected to it is my TV, connected through HDMI port, when I use the radeonhd driver then 800x600 and 1280x720 result in the same resolution which is to big for my TV so I end up with
1280x720 is probably the right mode for a 720p TV. You see absolutely no difference between 800x600 and 1280x720? That sounds impossible. How are you determining that's what's in use?
things off screen. When I use the fglrx driver then it configures my TV for 1920x540 which my TV can not do, it can only do up to 720p. So right now I am stuck with ether seeing a black screen because my TV can't handle the resoultion it is trying to do or have parts to the desktop/programs/what ever being off screen and the radeonhd drivers seem to be unable to do sound through the HDMI port as well.
Have you tried the plain radeon driver? Are you doing what you're doing without any xorg.conf? If you haven't, do so.
Anyone know any solutions or workarounds to my problem?
Just a suggested stopgap: If there exist regular VGA ports on both PC & TV, try them. Sometimes the feedback provided through the connection causes inexplicable trouble, and it seems more common that that happens with all digital connections than with analog connections. Ultimately I wouldn't expect much quality even if you get it to work natively. 720p, while good enough for most people for TV, really isn't HD connected to a PC. That's lower than a common 1024x768 15" LCD for a computer, and I'll bet your TV is very much bigger than that. The lowest resolution standalone computer display available in most stores today is 1440x900 for 19", quite a bit more than your 720 TV probably is. -- " We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org