[mythtv-users] HDMI on Liva ECS

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jerry,

Sunday, January 25, 2015, 7:35:39 PM, you wrote:

> I got my Liva mostly setup today.  It works fine if I have my TV connected
> directly to the Liva.  If I connect it through my AV receiver however, the
> Liva doesn't use the HDMI out.  In fact, it looks like it turns it off
> completely (receiver can usually display info about the input signal, but
> not in this case).

> While it's booting, I see the ECS logo, but as soon as it gets out of the
> BIOS boot, the screen blanks and the TV detects no signal.  I have nothing
> connected to the VGA port.  The computer is running fine, I can ssh into it.

> I set it up as a frontend only, using defaulted mythbuntu install.  It's
> been a loong time since I fooled around with X, and I'm not sure what the
> next step is to try to force it to use the HDMI output when there's no
> xorg.conf.

> Anyone else run into this?

> -Jerry

You  can  set  these  things  with arandr/xrandr. On my desktop my two
screens  flip  all  the time on waking from suspend, so I use a script
like:

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output DVI-I-0 --mode 1600x1200 --pos 1280x0 --rotate normal --primary \
       --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024 --pos 0x24 --rotate normal \
       --output DVI-I-1 --off \
       --output HDMI-0 --off

to  set  it  right.  You  can  create such a script interactively with
arandr. It will save it in ~/.screenlayout.



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