Re: Can an analog monitor and digital TV coexist + no sound

Marcel Rieux wrote:
I just bought a digital TV and I'm trying to configure my computer to
use it. My monitor, a Viewsonic VX922 is connected in analog mode and
the TV with HDMI. I used nvidia-settings as root to make the set-up
and it didn't complain about the 2 different types of connections,
analog and digital.

For now, the TV show all the boot process except the login screen but
stops showing the desktop image. Nothing works afterwards. If I unplug
the monitor, everything works fine, I get the login screen on the TV,
but when I put a film in the DVD reader, there's no sound.

My video card also has a DVI output that I could use. If analog and
digital don't work together, could I use the DVI output? The monitor
doesn't have HDMI, just DVI.

Here's the video section in xorg.conf:


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "ViewSonic VX922"
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "SONY TV"
HorizSync 15.0 - 68.0
VertRefresh 58.0 - 62.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9400 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9400 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
# Option "ConstantFrameRateHint" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; CRT:
nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; CRT:
1280x1024_75 +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; CRT:
nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Your xorg.conf seems incorrect....

For starters, the README for nvidia states....

To enable TwinView, you must specify the following option in the Device
section of your X Config file:

Option "TwinView"

I don't see that in your file's "Device" section. I've not done
TwinView in years....but I also think there is only a single Device
section since you have only one video card.

Suggest you read....

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/190.53/README/chapter-13.html
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/README.txt (older,
but the samples are better IMHO)

Also, sample xorg.conf files can be found on the internet after using
google to search for them.

And one more item. Since this is a nVidia configuration question I've
found that asking these types of questions to be best handled on the
nVidia forums. http://forums.nvidia.com/

(FWIW, when I did TwinView my nVidia card had VGA and S-Video out. I
used them simultaneously without problem.)


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