Do you have a monitor and TV hooked up to the card?

Some cards only allow one or the other, not both.

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Todd Young

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From: "Ben Bargabus" <ben_b at ppdonline.com>
> Hello,
> I have an ATI x300 SE graphics card (PCIe if that matters at all) that
> I'd trying to get working with TV-out on an Ubuntu 5.10 distro.  I had
> originally installed the amd64 build (I'm running a Pentium D) and under
> that I was able to get some fuzzy output to my TV.  Blocks of color
> seemed to be in approximately the right spot but it was as if everything
> was smeared across the screen and totally unreadable (if that
> description makes any sense).  Anyway, for another reason I went to the
> i386 build and now I don't get anything out the TV-out port.  To be
> precise, while booting up I get similar fuzzy-ness to the amd64 behavior
> but as soon as the login screen appears it goes solid black.  I have
> installed ATI's own driver (fglrx).  What am I missing here?
> Thanks,
> Ben.
> 
> PS the reason I switched to i386 is because ndiswrapper complained that
> my nic drivers weren't 64 bit.  If I need to go back to amd64 to get my
> tv-out back does anyone know of a 64 bit version of the linksys wmp54gx
> driver (uses airgo pre-n chipset - pciid 17cb:0001, I used the netgear
> wpnt511 driver)?
> 
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