It wouldn't hurt to try the proprietary driver. I'm guessing the HDMI out is using the nvidia card for output (would make more sense). I also wonder if your problem could be related to HDCP (a far out guess, I would guess the proprietary driver would be more likely to output HDCP compliant content but I know very little about HDCP so I could be totally wrong... I did a quick search didn't show any details to nouveau supporting or lacking support for HDCP).
Is it possible to disable the Intel card in the BIOS? The Xorg log doesn't appear to show anything terribly troubling. Also, there is one more thing I thought to try... Press FN + F8 a few times and see if you can get HDMI to come up using that. It could be a hardware switch preventing your HDMI from working (from the screenshot on Amazon it looks like F8 is the monitor button when used with Fn). Lastly, I'd try the BIOS and see if there are options for HDMI output vs VGA. Other than that maybe someone else has ideas other than the proprietary drivers... -- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM, joe golden <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanx Anthony and Brett for the leads. > > I installed arandr and it recognizes LVDS1 (laptop screen) and VGA1 with > the VGA connector. This is also seen through gnome: System -> Preferences -> > Monitors. It even recognizes the make and size of the 1080p monitor! running > xrandr with hdmi plugged in and vga disconnected recognizes only the laptop > screen. > > logs and modules >> > r...@tri:/home/joe# egrep 'WW|EE' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. > (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa > (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev > r...@tri:/home/joe# lsmod|grep nvidia > r...@tri:/home/joe# lsmod|grep nouv > nouveau 352808 0 > ttm 39746 1 nouveau > drm_kms_helper 20033 2 nouveau,i915 > drm 142151 5 nouveau,ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper > i2c_algo_bit 4225 2 nouveau,i915 > i2c_core 15680 6 > videodev,nouveau,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit > button 4650 2 nouveau,i915 > > So I guess I need the driver for the video card? Was hoping to go non > proprietary if possible. Checking into the video drivers. Any openish > recommendations? Machine has dual graphics cards: NVidia G210M Graphics with > 512MB DDR3 + Intel GMA 4500MHD (Switchable VGA). > > Thanx guys. > -- > > Joe Golden /_\ www.triangul.us /_\ People, Ideas, Connections > > On 10/11/2010 02:21 PM, Brett Johnson wrote: > >> 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 <http://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] >> <mailto:[email protected]> | web: simpleroute.com >> <http://simpleroute.com> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Anthony Carrico <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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 >> >> >>
