Digital display with NVidia card?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Mar 6 15:26:33 UTC 2007
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
>> Both are attached.
>
> OK, will take a look at them in a bit. It is AM here and just getting
> started. Although Lonni is on it. :-)
>
>>> nvidia-xconfig in run level 3 and use the xorg.conf it generated?
>>>
>>> I believe that you are able to get the login prompt at level 3, right?
>>
>> No, I see no display of virtual consoles. I did run system-config-display
>> and nvidia-settings . I can try nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-config-display
>> from runlevel 5 later.
>
> Sorry, just want to reconfirm a couple of things.
>
> 1. When your system is first powered on, the monitor comes out of standby
> mode and you do see the system's BIOS screens and if you wanted to you could
> go into the BIOS settings displays. Yes?
Now that you mention it, no. The screen remains blank from power-on to X
driver start--no POST, no boot messages, no rhgb, no VC. (In fact, the
first time I power on the monitor and then the CPU, the monitor appears to
stay in analog mode until the machine finishes booting. Then if I power
the monitor off and on, it detects the digital signal. After that,
rebooting produces the result above.)
>
> 2. If #1 is yes, can you see the grub menu? If yes, what happens when
> you use "a" to change the kernel start line to remove rhgb and add "3" to
> boot to run level 3. Do you still end up with a blank screen?
N/A, as above.
>
> 3. Aside from 1 and 2. When you boot and have the blank screen...can you
> use the "menu" buttons on your display and have the "on screen menu" show
> the "Display Mode"?. If I recall correctly, part of the symptoms of my
> problem was that the monitor's display mode showed "Analog" instead of
> "Digital". So, even if only the digital cable was plugged in the monitor
> kept thinking the "Analog" was alive and would not switch mode...giving a
> blank screen.
So it appears, here. After I get it to detect digital mode once, it will
continue to do the following:
Sense message switches between analog and digital mode through the first
few POST screens, then settles on digital, but the screen is blank, and
the monitor menu does not appear.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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