Thanks for all the ideas....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Paul Gallaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgallaway@gmail.com">pgallaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">I can think of a few scenarios that your hardware checks may not have<br></div>
covered. Have you tried taking it back to your monitor to see if it<br>
/still/ works there?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yup - plugged the HDMI into the monitor - and desktop was there in all its 1080p glory</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Have you tried a different input on the TV<br>
(assuming it has more than one HDMI input)? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>yes - I have two HDMI inputs - it's the same result on both. And same result if I connect the DVI out to either HDMI port. Interestingly enough the TV is picking up that there is a signal and shows on the OSD - 1080x1020p 60HZ. And if I try another resolution in xorg (from the EDID) it will reflect that resolution on the OSD - just blank screens in all cases which suggests the card and TV are definitely speaking to each other.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Does your Mac Mini still<br>
work on the TV (I think you did this to look up the modeline but it<br>
wasn't explicitly clear)? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes - mac mini (its the older Core Duo model) connected to the TV with the DVI connected to the HDMI input. Works fine, and drives the TV at 1080p. So the TV is clearly capable of accepting a digital signal from a computer. Before I install the nvidia drivers and are running with just the VESA drivers - the nvidia card works just fine on the TV as well.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Have you tried VGA/component (assuming the<br>
Ion boards and your TV have either of those)?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes- VGA works...it didn't drive at 1080p initially because the nvidia card wasn't reading the EDID. But taking the EDIDs that I was picking up from the HDMI connection and putting them in xorg.conf meant that VGA works fine. But I really need HDMI audio working since that was one of my primary reasons for picking up an ION.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Have you done anything<br>
in particular to enable HDMI audio?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Initially all I needed to do on Ubuntu 9.04 was go into alsamixer, unmute one of the digital outs, and everything 'just worked'</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If there's something special to do<br>
focus on getting just the video working and leave audio out for now.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. I reinstalled 9.04 from scratch and left everything bog-standard except for the nvidia drivers. I also tried 8.10 - but same result.</div>
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