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saint_13

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Registered: 2010-11-17

Posts: 26

Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Alright so I'm on an HP pavilion dv5 laptop with an integrated radeon hd 3200 and for some reason, I can't seem to output to my 32inch TV after a certain part of the boot process. It's strange though, because if I have my HDMI cable plugged in during boot, I can see the BIOS/GRUB boot menu and part of the daemons being loaded in the beginning, then it all goes blank on the TV. When the HDMI is plugged in, xrandr returns

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800       60.0*+
   1280x720       59.9  
   1152x768       59.8  
   1024x768       59.9  
   800x600        59.9  
   848x480        59.7  
   720x480        59.7  
   640x480        59.4  
HDMI-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1280x720       60.0 +
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   720x480        59.9  
   640x480        60.0 

I've googled around and searched through the forums but haven't been able to figure this out. Oh and I'm using the open source ATI driver, not the catalyst one from the AUR. So I'm quite stumped and am getting tired of having to boot into windows to stream stuff so any and all help (as always) is greatly appreciated.

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Last edited by saint_13 (2011-06-22 20:43:07)

saint_13

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Registered: 2010-11-17

Posts: 26

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Bump for a potential answer? Even a point in the right direction? Me rove you rong time arch users <3

jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Try messing around with xrandr (try xrandr --auto for starters).

Edit: Sorry, that probably wasn't much help; I didn't see you were already using xrandr.

Last edited by jlindgren (2011-05-16 01:52:54)

saint_13

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Registered: 2010-11-17

Posts: 26

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Try messing around with xrandr (try xrandr --auto for starters).

Edit: Sorry, that probably wasn't much help; I didn't see you were already using xrandr.

No worries, but I've tried like every xrandr setting I've seen in the manual to get this to work, but to no avail. Thanks for the reply though

saint_13

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Registered: 2010-11-17

Posts: 26

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Well a new development here gentlemen, by sheer happenstance I rebooted my computer whilst connected to our 60 inch LCD tv and arch seems to output HDMI just fine..well the picture anyways. But no audio, so now it seems I move forward to the audio issue.

jlindgren

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Registered: 2011-02-27

Posts: 260

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Oddly enough, HDMI audio was *just* brought up on another thread.  Take a look.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119151

saint_13

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Registered: 2010-11-17

Posts: 26

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Oddly enough, HDMI audio was *just* brought up on another thread.  Take a look.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119151

Alright I'll definitely be giving that a look over, however I'm still unable to output to my 32inch TV in my room. I mean it's definitely something with the TV, just no idea what. I've tried xrandr on the smallest resolution (like 640x400 or what have you) and still no go. My best guess is that it has something to do with the resolution, when the computer boots considering I can see my BIOS on my 32 inch but for the life of me I am just baffled. Anyways sorry for the late response, been busy with work and the like. So just to sum up so far; HDMI video out works on our 55 inch LCD @ any resolution but doesn't work on my little 32 inch. As always all help is greatly appreciated, especially you jlindgren for sticking around this long lol.

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: Radeon HD 3200 and HDMI output [Solved]

Try this, if it does what I think it will do, it should slightly lower your laptop's resolution to 1280x720, and output the same thing to your TV (so basically, cloned 720p on both screens).

xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x720 --output HDMI-0 --mode 1280x720

That works for my with my Radeon 4200 HDMI out (except I use 1208x681....long story where I got that from lol, overscan issues and crap, so I made that one up, but it works)

Also, for me, audio seems to be slightly quirky sometimes, and I'm not quite sure why, but I noticed that when I put the xrandr line in my .xinitrc, it fixed itself...but now I took it back out and now it still seems to work so honestly I don't know I use Pulseaudio and set it to simultaneous outputs in paprefs, that seems to work best most of the time, try that.

Last edited by doorknob60 (2011-05-24 06:21:28)