I have a monitor hooked up now but didn't previously (I hooked up the
monitor because the TV-out wasn't giving me anything).  Good thought
though.  Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Ben.

auditodd at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> Do you have a monitor and TV hooked up to the card?
> 
> Some cards only allow one or the other, not both.
> 
> --
> ----
> ------
> Todd Young
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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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