I tried to connect my aging Inspiron 700m to my TV with S-Video, which has worked well in the past, only to discover that tv-out is no longer supported with the new intel driver (see this discussion at Ubuntu’s bug tracker ). And the old driver is no longer included in debian/ubuntu/sidux.
I installed the xorg-video-intel-i810 driver from etch (now oldstable) with –force-conflicts; the newer versions are dummy packages for the intel driver. Then I copied over my old xorg.conf, but it still used the intel driver. Plus apt refuses to do anything because of the conflict.
Perhaps I will need to compile the xorg 7.1 source and install over the debian packages? What a f#*&ing pain in the ass. Or maybe i810 is still maintained in 7.3+, but not packaged? More on this later when I find a solution.
UPDATE: I finally got old xorg installed, only to encounter worse bugs than no S-video out – I can’t get any dual head working. I suspect that 6.8 may work, but the older the release the harder it is to get it compiled. For now I will be booting into Windows XP whenever I need S-Video. I’d be curious to know if anyone has success with 6.8 (or any other solution).
