Comment 82 for bug 6270

Built in hardware from a 4-year-old laptop should definitely be working by
now.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Craig Huffstetler <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> It's definitely going to be up to the community.
>
> There are many questions on this, many work-arounds that may or may not
> work for users in the forums, the Answers community and ubuntu-users
> list, and this has been since 2005? I could barely believe it when I
> found this bug when trying to help another user just get the S-Video/TV
> Out to work. Now the i810 "work around" doesn't work because the driver
> is no longer available, easily at least, from the repositories in 8.10.
>
> And in any since it can be a dead-end because only limited users
> reported success with using the i810 driver.
>
> I really think this should have a priority higher than "Wishlist."
>
> --
> [i855] no support for TV-Out on 8xx chipsets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6270
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-i810” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> I use an Intel Centrino chipset on a Dell Inspiron 510m. My hardware ID is:
> ab4d55311e734d27f3679e60a3ba8604
>
> I apologise if I got the source package incorrect.
>
> What I was attempting to achieve was to output a video of the Guadec
> conference, which was playing on my screen, to the Television via my S-Video
> connector. I plugged everything in and pushed the function key with
> "CRT/LCD". The screen had a white flicker in it whenever I pushed the button
> but, aside from that, nothing happened.
>
> What I expected to happen was for the TV to mirror what was on my screen.
>
> My resolution was set to 1400x1050 but the same occurs when this is reduced
> to 1280x1024 (the lowest in the list).
>
> Thanks
>