Xavier wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send openchrome-users mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of openchrome-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. VIA CX700M HDMI 720P Output Fail (Dan Kingdon) > 2. Re: VIA CX700M HDMI 720P Output Fail (Xavier Bachelot) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
> > Dan Kingdon wrote: >> Hi, >> Running a brand new Jetway J7F5M-VHE motherboard with HDMI output, >> Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, bundled openchrome drivers. >> Ultimate goal is to get full 1280x720 via 720P HDMI to a plasma TV. >> At present its not having any of it and I am strugling to find any info >> on anyone who has. >> With mother board set at "CRT+HDMI" and default xorg.conf I get a >> perfect picture on the CRT and a picture on the HDMI which is clearly >> not in a proper mode, no matter what the resolution. Colour appears to >> match the desktop but is flickering and out of sync. >> >> With the mother board set at "HDMI" we get the same garbled mode on the TV. >> Switching to openchrome drivers, we can get a picture on the HDMI cable >> but it is running at a fixed res and any resolution set in xorg.conf >> merely underscans and is cropped. >> >> Adding any of these options does not seem to effect things. >> Option "TVOutput" "720P" >> Option "TVType" "Composite" or Option "TVType" "SC" or Option "TVType" >> "HDMI" >> Adding Option "ActiveDisplay" "TV" casues X to fail to load and sticks >> at flashing cursor. >> Adding Option "VBEModes" Also causes X to hang at flashing cursor. >> 1. Does anyone have HDMI output working on this chipset? If so do they >> have a working xorg.conf file that I can check out. >> >> 2. Has anybody had better luck on other linux distro's? Fedora seems to >> be the manufacturers favourite. >> 3. Any help very much appreciated. (if all else fails then we shall have >> to use windows :( ) >> Thanks for reading. >> *Daniel Kingdon* >> IT Technician >> Hanham High School >> > you need svn trunk for native DVI support. > You don't want to use Option "VBEModes". You want to use Option > "ActiveDevice" "DFP". You may need to provide a modeline and > VertRefresh/HorizSync for your TV. The BIOS setup shouldn't matter, > except at boot time when the openchrome driver has not taken control. > > I, as the Fedora package maintainer, try to keep the packages fairly > current. F-10 is almost at trunk level and have support for the CX700 > TMDS encoder. Anyway, you can probably get Ubuntu to work, but you'll > need to build the driver from trunk on your own. > > Regards, > Xavier > > I've also been trying to make this motherboard work with an HDMI TV and am having similar problems. Has anybody gotten this to work? How can I debug this? Thanks, Craig _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
