HDMI video signal with XBMC Live or Ubuntu

January 26th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to 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

  1. suzie
    November 6th, 2009 at 20:21 | #1

    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.

  1. August 5th, 2009 at 14:31 | #1