On 3/5/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >>> Matthew Saltzman wrote: >>>> >>>> And is there a way to view virtual consoles on digital out? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> I find it strange that you can not view the virtual consoles on >>> digital out. I have no problems with it here. Are you saying that if >>> you hit <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1> that you get a blank screen or something? >> >> Right. On boot, the first thing I see displayed is gdm (or the NVidia logo >> if I use that driver). <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1> takes me to a blank screen. > > I'm a bit more familiar with the nvidia driver and the logs that it > produces.... > > A while back, over 2 years ago, I had a similar problem. I had a SyncMaster > 172T and a ViewSonic VG800b and an Nvidia based card with an analog and > digital output. When using a single monitor, I pretty sure I found myself > using only the analog. But, when I went to a dual head setup the digital out > worked just fine. Then, I finally got the digital working by itself. > > Anyway, how about sending your xorg.conf as well. It may jog my memory. And, > if possible, the Xlog with the nvidia driver. Did you happen to try running Both are attached.
Looks like the EDID in your display is very badly mangled: (--) NVIDIA(0): ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0): 135.0 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): maximum pixel clock (--) NVIDIA(0): ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0): Internal (--) NVIDIA(0): Single Link TMDS Is anything displayed during POST? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
