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Frankie!

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Registered: 2015-05-24

Posts: 6

HDMI / VGA Problems

Hi

First of all, sorry if there is any post related with that, but I've been two weeks looking for a fix of my issue and no luck.

I have a pretty old laptop Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21M with a Nvidia card and nvidia 340xx drivers installed.

[ftost@pioneer ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GT] (rev a1)

I can't get my HDMI or VGA connections working.

[ftost@pioneer ~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
TV-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected primary 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 322mm x 201mm
   1280x800      59.94*+
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

In other post I've seen something like capture de udev events, but when I plug in//unplug the VGA or HDMI connectors  no udev events are created.

[ftost@pioneer ~]$ udevadm monitor
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent

My xorg.conf is the default generated by nvidia-xconfig

After run

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --auto

I could see

[  1978.927] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Using ConnectedMonitor string "DFP-0".
[  1978.928] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (Nvidia Default Flat Panel (DFP-0)) does not support
[  1978.928] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0):     NVIDIA 3D Vision stereo.

Could anybody help me? I will apreciate it.

Fran

hannson

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From: .de

Registered: 2014-01-28

Posts: 37

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Re: HDMI / VGA Problems

Might not be an actual fix but your nvidia package seems a bit out of date. I think we're currently at 358.something. Any reasons why you keep that old package around? Btw, welcome to the forums.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: HDMI / VGA Problems

Any reasons why you keep that old package around?

Because that's the only one that supports his card. Newer versions won't work.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

Last edited by Slithery (2015-11-23 22:58:31)

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Frankie!

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Registered: 2015-05-24

Posts: 6

Re: HDMI / VGA Problems

Any reasons why you keep that old package around?

Because that's the only one that supports his card. Newer versions won't work.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA#Installing

That's exactly why. Thanks slithery.