Better late than never on a reply (I hope). What are you using for drivers in your xorg.conf? Do you notice a difference between using the proprietary (*gasp*) NVidia drivers and the nouveau driver? Check out /var/log for your Xorg log files and look to see if you are having problems loading the driver you are using just to make sure it loads properly:
egrep 'WW|EE' /var/log/Xorg.0.log Lines with warnings show with (WW) and lines with errors show with (EE). This might help you troubleshoot if your problem is driver related. I've had issues where I install and try to use the proprietary driver but it ends up loading the nouveau driver due to problems with the proprietary one. I didn't notice as I had 3d acceleration but there were a few features I had issues with that I didn't fix until I tracked down the problem. You can also do an lsmod and verify 'nvidia' is loaded after installing the nvidia driver if you go that route. If you are using gnome, check System -> Preferences -> Monitors with your HDMI cable plugged in and let us know if you see the other 'monitor' listed and if you can enable it through there (gnome won't always auto enable the monitor - it will make you select the second monitor and click 'On'). And lastly, HDMI cables are dirt cheap if you don't buy them locally. Local retailers use their TVs/PCs/etc as their loss leaders and then shaft everyone on the peripherals. A personal favorite for cables is monoprice.com but there are other similar sites out there. Cheers, -- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/09/2010 01:03 PM, joe golden wrote: > > When I plug in the HDMI cable I get nuthin' on the same monitor that was > > OK w/ the VGA cable. > > > > There's a couple of issues here: > > * laptop has dual graphics cards > > * HDMI is totally untested > > * No special mods have been installed to recognize special hardware > > Have you tried xrandr? > > -- > Anthony Carrico > >
