Restricted Drivers Manager ATI + S-video cable

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I have a ATI Radeon X800 XL which happens to have one DVI, one VGA and a super video cable interface (tv out) so when I try to install the restricted ATI driver with a cable plugged on the tv out the installation simply fails. To install the driver correctly I just unplugged the super video cable and the installation was done perfectly, I not sure if this can be considered a bug but many others might had some similar issues. I would get a black screen on my LCD monitor and on the CRT monitor a screen telling me about xserver failing, then i would just use sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg set it to Vesa and redo the restricted driver install with the S-video cable unplugged.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is a bug in the fglrx driver, or possibly even the card hardware; reassigning.

[NecLimDul (neclimdul)]

I ran into this problem my self. I can't comment on which of the to mentioned causes it would be but i would lean towards driver. the Xorg log shows it dieing on "init". I don't have the box in my posession at the moment so I can't attach the log. I'll try to do that in case it because useful.

Maybe this is fixed to some extent in Gutsy as I was able to install the driver fine, the problem came when the machine restarted with the S-Video cable installed. This was the first time I restarted so it looked like this box had a hardware issue for hours until I moved it away from the TV to test it more.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This package has become obsolete so we're closing out the bug report as WONTFIX.
Thanks for reporting it though!