My plasma screen blacks out when booting in to X!

Perre · 2008-06-28 06:47:04

Hi!

I recently bought a Pioneer LX508D (amazing TV ) and I'm trying to set it up with my computer so I can get my Freevo center up and running. When I power up the computer the booting screen shows up on the TV, everything works fine when I go through the booting sequence, but the second it boots into X the TV screen goes blank.

Here's my xorg.com:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "logiultrax"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Samsung"
    ModelName      "SyncMaster 930bf"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G70 [GeForce 7800 GTX]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

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

I have a Nvidia 7800GTX and a Syncmaster monitor. I thought the Nvidia card would autodetect the TV, but it's not. When I access "nvidia-settings" it seems to have detected that the TV is connected but Native resolution, Best fit resolution, Frontend resolution, Backend resolution and Refresh rate says "Unknown". How do I get the TV working in X??

PS: I'm using openbox as DM.
I hope someone can help me as I'm really looking forward to watching all my movies on the 1920x1080 insano-screen.

Perre · 2008-06-28 12:06:58

Ok, an update:

I've been able to get the TV working in X, but I'm having trouble getting it to work the right way.

I want the computer monitor to be primary display for the X screen. But I want it to still have a resolution of 1280x1024.
I set the TV to be a clone of the monitor (that I've set to "Absolute") but the TV resolution has to have 1920x1080. Is this
impossible? To clone the monitor (with a resolution of 1280x1024) but to output that image to 1920x1080 on the TV??

My new xorg.conf:

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder63)  Mon May 19 00:34:28 PDT 2008

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "xtrap"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "freetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbModel" "logiultrax"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "PIONEER_PDP."
    HorizSync       15.0 - 69.0
    VertRefresh     23.0 - 61.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "G70 [GeForce 7800 GTX]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7800 GTX"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7800 GTX"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          1
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0, DFP-1: 1920x1080_60 +1280+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP-1: 1920x1080_60 +1280+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Videocard1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-1: 1920x1080_60 +0+0"
EndSection

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

And it should be said that I'm having some problems with a bug in "Nvidia-settings" so I have to start it from terminal with:
$ sudo LC_ALL=C nvidia-settings

Last edited by Perre (2008-06-28 12:12:22)

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#1 2008-06-28 06:47:04

My plasma screen blacks out when booting in to X!

#2 2008-06-28 12:06:58

Re: My plasma screen blacks out when booting in to X!

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