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jdevelop

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Registered: 2014-04-18

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Asus N56VZ, Nvidia, HDMI and bumblebee

Hello!

I've got installed the following packages:

nvidia 340.32-1
nvidia-utils 340.32-1
xorg-server 1.16.0-6
bumblebee 3.2.1-3
virtualgl 2.3.3-1
xf86-video-intel 2.99.914-4

Now,

> glxgears 
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.569 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.965 FPS

>  optirun glxgears
830 frames in 5.0 seconds = 165.916 FPS

So it seems that GLX and bumblebee have been being working well after setup.

> xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   640x480       59.94  
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
  1920x1080 (0x47) 138.650MHz
        h: width  1920 start 1944 end 1960 total 2080 skew    0 clock  66.66KHz
        v: height 1080 start 1082 end 1087 total 1111           clock  60.00Hz

so there's LVDS and VGA and some mysterious VIRTUAL1 display,

Now I start a separate instance of X with optimus:

> optirun true

and check if there's some server:

> pgrep -a X
1503 /usr/bin/Xorg.bin -nolisten tcp :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.BsxSHzsy3g vt1
2870 /usr/bin/Xorg.bin :8 -config /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia -configdir /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d -sharevts -nolisten tcp -noreset -verbose 3 -isolateDevice PCI:01:00:0 -modulepath /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/,/usr/lib/xorg/modules

Ok, everything is on screen 8

Now,

> export DISPLAY=:8 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> xrandr -q                                                         
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 640 x 480, maximum 16384 x 16384
> xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x279 cap: 0x1, Source Output crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 associated providers: 0 name:NVIDIA-0

So I've got couple of questions here:

1) does it mean that I have LVDS, VGA and HDMI wired to the same Intel chip? How could I check that?
2) What is VIRTUAL1?
3) Where is HDMI?
4) How to get HDMI working?

Thanks