ATI, FGLRX,s-video, VGA-out

[Paul S]

Larry Hartman said the following on 07/30/2008 01:45 AM:
> Did I ever say on the list how horrible the ATI X200M is?
> 
> Larry
> 

That's about the only reason I've kept M$ on it's own partition. 
There's tv out and wifi that I sometimes need and can't get working 
dependably in linux.  FWIW, fglrx does a great job on recognizing tv and 
external monitors on my X1400, but it's taken more than a year to get it 
working.  It's a shame they've never extended it back to your earlier 
hardware.

Did you try the "ati" (aka "radeon") open source driver?  There's a 
patch from the gatos.sourceforge.net to get tv working on certain older 
cards (is X200M the same as Radeon200?).  I don't know if it's your 
particular card though.  There's also a howto patch and config in the 
ubuntuforums (again, not sure if it's your card).

The ati dev's have tv out on their wish list (no time line and lot's of 
higher priority stuff ahead of it).

regards,