HDMI video signal with XBMC Live or Ubuntu

July 22, 2009 by at 09:41 6 Comments

After I connected my Nvidia ION system to my Onkyo receiver I had the following problem. Turning on first the Nvidia ION machine and secondly the Onkyo receiver gave me a black screen. I found the following solution for this problem:

Open the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and search for the “Screen” section. Add the following line of code:
Option “ConnectedMonitor” “DFP-1″

Restart the XBMC system and now you’ll notice you don’t have a black screen anymore! Example of my Screen section:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"

Option “ConnectedMonitor” “DFP-1″
Option "metamodes" "1920x1080_60 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
Modes "1920x1080_60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Comments

  1. suzie says:

    ik heb het bestand /etc/X11/xorg.conf geopent

    maar zie niks in dat bestand, is leeg bij mij!?

    ik heb xbmc live geistalleerd op usb drive.

  2. Kristoffer says:

    Thanks! This did the trick on my system (Zotac ION ITX F).

  3. Maarten says:

    Juiste resolutie etc. kun je realiseren door de edid lokaal op te slaan mbv nvidia-settings (“aquire edid” button). Vervolgens kan je in de xorg.conf onder section “Monitor” deze optie toevoegen:

    Option “CustomEDID” “DFP-1:/path/to/edid.bin”

    (Uiteraard even het juiste path invullen)

    De edid informatie is nu altijd beschikbaar. Hierdoor zal x altijd in de juiste resolutie opstarten.

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