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  1. #21
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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Quote Originally Posted by tnunamak View Post
    Thanks a ton, that was really helpful. I also have a CW with the 330M, but I had to get my own EDID binary to get it to work.

    Does xserver have to be restarted in order to enable/disable HDMI output? Right now, I have to save changes to xorg config to enable/disable the second screen (through nvidia-settings)... I can't just plug in an HDMI cable and switch it on the fly. I thought maybe KRandR could do it but that only detects displays that are enabled.

    Thanks again for the help.
    No prob!

    Could you post your edid bin just in case others need it?

    As far as HDMI and auto detection, I personally setup my xorg.conf to only load the laptop LCD on boot. From there I use nvidia-settings to temporarily enable whatever CRT or HDMI monitor I might be using at the moment. (almost on the fly, all monitors are detected real time)

    No other solution works as NVIDIA for some damn reason won't support the latest RandR specification.

    Now if only my ath9k internal wireless worked well without dropping packets... you have any luck with that? This laptop has been work.

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Quote Originally Posted by tgui View Post
    No prob!

    Could you post your edid bin just in case others need it?

    As far as HDMI and auto detection, I personally setup my xorg.conf to only load the laptop LCD on boot. From there I use nvidia-settings to temporarily enable whatever CRT or HDMI monitor I might be using at the moment. (almost on the fly, all monitors are detected real time)

    No other solution works as NVIDIA for some damn reason won't support the latest RandR specification.

    Now if only my ath9k internal wireless worked well without dropping packets... you have any luck with that? This laptop has been work.
    Sure thing, it's attached (renamed to .txt)

    I was hoping to get HDMI working the way you have it working. Right now, nvidia-settings detects both displays but I can't enable/disable one or the other. I'm just switching between two different xorg.conf files and restarting xserver... a pain, but better than nothing. It might have something to do with using KDE and not GNOME.

    I haven't been able to get audio over HDMI either, after struggling with it for a while. I even recompiled the newest alsa drivers to no avail.

    Another audio issue is that I can't audio input from the built-in microphone (not the port).

    I have also noticed wireless seems to have issues that don't occur in windows... I didn't realize that maybe it was because of dropped packets.

    Below are the two xorg.conf files I'm using, lspci, aplay -l. The model I'm using is the VPCCW26FX. I'm just hoping that support for this hardware is not here yet, but coming soon.

    xorg.conf (built-in display)
    Code:
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Vaio_Display"
            VendorName     "Sony"
            ModelName      "VPCCW26FX"
            HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
            VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Big_Display"
            VendorName     "Westinghouse"
            ModelName      "LVM-42w2"
            HorizSync       31.5 - 80.0
            VertRefresh     59.0 - 60.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier     "Screen0"
            Device         "Nvidia330M"
            Monitor        "Vaio_Display"
            Option         "ConnectedMonitor"       "DFP-0,DFP-1"
            Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/edid_raw.bin"
            DefaultDepth    24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Depth       24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
            Load    "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"        
            Identifier     "Mouse0"
            Driver         "mouse"
            Option         "Protocol" "auto"
            Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
            Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
            Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Keyboard0"
            Driver         "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier     "Layout0"
            Screen      0  "Screen0"
            InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
            InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
            Identifier      "Nvidia330M"
            VendorName      "NVIDIA Corporation"
            Driver          "nvidia"
            Option          "NoLogo" "True"
            BoardName       "GeForce GT 330M"
    EndSection
    xorg.conf (external display, used via HDMI)
    Code:
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Vaio_Display"
            VendorName     "Sony"
            ModelName      "VPCCW26FX"
            HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
            VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Big_Display"
            VendorName     "Westinghouse"
            ModelName      "LVM-42w2"
            HorizSync       31.5 - 80.0
            VertRefresh     59.0 - 60.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier     "Screen0"
            Device         "Nvidia330M"
            Monitor        "Big_Display"
            Option         "ConnectedMonitor"       "DFP-1"
            Option          "DPI" "144x144"
            Option          "UseEdidDpi" "false"
            DefaultDepth    24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Depth       24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
            Load    "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Mouse0"
            Driver         "mouse"
            Option         "Protocol" "auto"
            Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
            Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
            Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Keyboard0"
            Driver         "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier     "Layout0"
            Screen      0  "Screen0"
            InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
            InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
            Identifier      "Nvidia330M"
            VendorName      "NVIDIA Corporation"
            BoardName       "GeForce GT 330M"
            Driver  "nvidia"
            Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
    EndSection
    lscpi
    Code:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Arrandale DRAM Controller (rev 02)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Arrandale PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a2b (rev a2)
    01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)
    02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
    03:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
    03:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230
    03:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Device e832
    03:00.4 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
    04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 4380 (rev 10)
    3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
    3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
    3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
    3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
    3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d12 (rev 02)
    3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d13 (rev 02)
    aplay -l
    Code:
    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
    card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
      Subdevices: 0/1
      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    Attached Files Attached Files

  3. #23
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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    tgui: I don't see any dropped packets, do you have the same card I do (AR9285)?

    ifconfig
    Code:
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:be:b2:b5:d4
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
              Interrupt:18
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:1405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:53887 (53.8 KB)  TX bytes:53887 (53.8 KB)
    
    wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2c:81:58:ed:3d:2d
              inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::2e81:58ff:feed:3d2d/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:37346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:34881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:33457644 (33.4 MB)  TX bytes:5682388 (5.6 MB)
    
    wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 2C-81-58-ED-3D-2D-65-64-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
              UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    i managed to have success with using a custom edid by dumping it in from windows. however the issue is that i cannot set the brightness of the screen using the FN keys at all. i could start the nvidia control panel and adjust the brightness of the colours, but its not the same thing at all. anyone else have that issue aswell?

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Quote Originally Posted by tnunamak View Post
    tgui: I don't see any dropped packets, do you have the same card I do (AR9285)?

    ifconfig
    Code:
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:be:b2:b5:d4
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
              Interrupt:18
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:1405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:1405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
              RX bytes:53887 (53.8 KB)  TX bytes:53887 (53.8 KB)
    
    wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 2c:81:58:ed:3d:2d
              inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::2e81:58ff:feed:3d2d/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:37346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:34881 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:33457644 (33.4 MB)  TX bytes:5682388 (5.6 MB)
    
    wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 2C-81-58-ED-3D-2D-65-64-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
              UP RUNNING  MTU:0  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
    I do. Uses the ATH9k driver. No matter the version of driver I try, pulling a large file and running ping reveals dropped packets. I've got a USB 802.11N network card until the driver stabilizes.

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Quote Originally Posted by tnunamak View Post
    Sure thing, it's attached (renamed to .txt)

    I was hoping to get HDMI working the way you have it working. Right now, nvidia-settings detects both displays but I can't enable/disable one or the other. I'm just switching between two different xorg.conf files and restarting xserver... a pain, but better than nothing. It might have something to do with using KDE and not GNOME.

    I haven't been able to get audio over HDMI either, after struggling with it for a while. I even recompiled the newest alsa drivers to no avail.

    Another audio issue is that I can't audio input from the built-in microphone (not the port).

    I have also noticed wireless seems to have issues that don't occur in windows... I didn't realize that maybe it was because of dropped packets.

    Below are the two xorg.conf files I'm using, lspci, aplay -l. The model I'm using is the VPCCW26FX. I'm just hoping that support for this hardware is not here yet, but coming soon.

    xorg.conf (built-in display)
    Code:
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Vaio_Display"
            VendorName     "Sony"
            ModelName      "VPCCW26FX"
            HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
            VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Big_Display"
            VendorName     "Westinghouse"
            ModelName      "LVM-42w2"
            HorizSync       31.5 - 80.0
            VertRefresh     59.0 - 60.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier     "Screen0"
            Device         "Nvidia330M"
            Monitor        "Vaio_Display"
            Option         "ConnectedMonitor"       "DFP-0,DFP-1"
            Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/edid_raw.bin"
            DefaultDepth    24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Depth       24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
            Load    "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"        
            Identifier     "Mouse0"
            Driver         "mouse"
            Option         "Protocol" "auto"
            Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
            Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
            Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Keyboard0"
            Driver         "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier     "Layout0"
            Screen      0  "Screen0"
            InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
            InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
            Identifier      "Nvidia330M"
            VendorName      "NVIDIA Corporation"
            Driver          "nvidia"
            Option          "NoLogo" "True"
            BoardName       "GeForce GT 330M"
    EndSection
    xorg.conf (external display, used via HDMI)
    Code:
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Vaio_Display"
            VendorName     "Sony"
            ModelName      "VPCCW26FX"
            HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0
            VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
            Identifier     "Big_Display"
            VendorName     "Westinghouse"
            ModelName      "LVM-42w2"
            HorizSync       31.5 - 80.0
            VertRefresh     59.0 - 60.0
            Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
            Identifier     "Screen0"
            Device         "Nvidia330M"
            Monitor        "Big_Display"
            Option         "ConnectedMonitor"       "DFP-1"
            Option          "DPI" "144x144"
            Option          "UseEdidDpi" "false"
            DefaultDepth    24
            SubSection "Display"
                    Depth       24
            EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Module"
            Load    "glx"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Mouse0"
            Driver         "mouse"
            Option         "Protocol" "auto"
            Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
            Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
            Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
            Identifier     "Keyboard0"
            Driver         "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
            Identifier     "Layout0"
            Screen      0  "Screen0"
            InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
            InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
            Identifier      "Nvidia330M"
            VendorName      "NVIDIA Corporation"
            BoardName       "GeForce GT 330M"
            Driver  "nvidia"
            Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
    EndSection
    lscpi
    Code:
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Arrandale DRAM Controller (rev 02)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Arrandale PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 02)
    00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
    00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
    00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
    00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 05)
    00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
    00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a2b (rev a2)
    01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)
    02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
    03:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
    03:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e230
    03:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Device e832
    03:00.4 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822
    04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 4380 (rev 10)
    3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
    3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
    3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
    3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
    3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d12 (rev 02)
    3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d13 (rev 02)
    aplay -l
    Code:
    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
    card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC262 Analog [ALC262 Analog]
      Subdevices: 0/1
      Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    Same here, no sound over HDMI yet. Ohh well, my HTPC runs an Intel GPU which supports sounds over HDMI in linux.

    I like and hate Nvidia at the same time.

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    @tgui:

    Thank you so much for the files. It fixed my problem.

    Ubuntu 10.04; Intel Core i5-520M; Nvidia Geforce GT 330M 512MB; DDR3 4 GB
    Die Die must use Linux

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Hi

    I have a similar problem with My sony Vaio laptop
    VPCS117GAwith NVIDIA® GeForce® 310M GPU with CUDA™ Technology.

    Which Nvidia driver I should use 185 , 190 or 195. I have downloaded & installed them from nvidia site but none is working.
    I have even added into my xorg.conf edid extracted from window 7 proffessional using
    softMCCS "running using windows 98 compability".

    My problem is once I install driver from the command line & login to Gnome to activate the driver using sudo nvidia-xconfig the xorg.conf is replaced by the driver.

    How do I force my own version xorg.conf to be loaded instead.
    I have tried replacing the xorg.conf generated by the driver by the modified one "containing reference to my edid file" and the result I got either "low graphic or gray screen"

    I have followed many instructions in ubuntu forums & other but no success, I am back to the default xorg.conf.

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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Got the same problem here with Sony VAIO VPC-CW13FD containing a nVidia GeForce 210M running on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 64 bits.

    -Without nVidia driver, HDMI output isn't working
    -With nVidia driver (from repositories version 185 or from nVidia website version 195.36.15) HDMI output is activated but main laptop display is black
    -With EDID workaround the laptop screens comes up but the HDMI output screen isn't detected anymore

    For the last point, I tested with the solution proposed earlier with the forced connection :

    Code:
        Option         "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, DFP-1, CRT"
    But the HDMI connected screen doesn't come up. Here is another attempt I made with the HDMI screen EDID :

    Code:
        Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/VAIOLCD_edid.bin"
        Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/Philips220SW_edid.bin"
    Still no success.
    I'm trying to extend my desktop with the HDMI screen. I would use VGA (cause it is working fine without nVidia driver with VGA), but I'm trying to connect 2 computers to the same display and the other computer has only VGA output.

    Any hints?

  10. #30
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    Re: Need Lots of Graphic Help Sony Vaio CW

    Installed the latest nVidia driver yesterday and thought you should know it fixed all my problems with the HDMI output.

    Version 195.36.24

    Here is my xorg.conf for the record :

    Code:
    # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
    # nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Thu Apr 22 20:36:15 PDT 2010
    
    # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
    # nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Thu Apr 22 20:35:23 PDT 2010
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Layout0"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Files"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    
        # generated from default
        Identifier     "Mouse0"
        Driver         "mouse"
        Option         "Protocol" "auto"
        Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    EndSection
    
    Section "InputDevice"
    
        # generated from default
        Identifier     "Keyboard0"
        Driver         "kbd"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "Sony Nvidia Default Flat Panel"
        HorizSync       29.0 - 47.0
        VertRefresh     0.0 - 61.0
        Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier     "Monitor1"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "Philips 220SW"
        HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
        VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Device0"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "GeForce G210M"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Device1"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "GeForce G210M"
        BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen          1
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
    
    # Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
    # Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
        Identifier     "Screen0"
        Device         "Device0"
        Monitor        "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        Option         "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, DFP-1, CRT"
        Option         "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/VAIOLCD_edid.bin"
        Option         "ModeValidation" "NoTotalSizeCheck"
        Option         "TwinView" "1"
        Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
        Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1680+282, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
        SubSection     "Display"
            Depth       24
        EndSubSection
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier     "Screen1"
        Device         "Device1"
        Monitor        "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth    24
        Option         "TwinView" "0"
        Option         "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
        SubSection     "Display"
            Depth       24
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

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