Crap! HDMI... :( Help!

[Todd Millecam]

Yeah, I remember on a Lenovo I had with two graphics cards, I had to setup
bumblebeed and then it all worked pretty well.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> you might need to use the proprietary drivers in order for it to all
> communicate correctly.
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org>
> wrote:
>
>> a laptop (Asus ROG GL752VW) Stupid Windows 10 would not detect HDMI.
>>>>> Well, latest-and-greatest Linux Mint (KDE) doesn't detect the HDMI
>>>>> either...
>>>>>
>>>> Todd Millecam writes:
>>>
>>>> Well, either your HDMI port is electrically broken on the board (TV or
>>>> Laptop, could be one or the other, hard to tell from an email), or it's
>>>> a
>>>> software issue.
>>>>
>>>
>> Having 2 different OSes both fail to see the HDMI output sounds like a
>> problem that isn't software to me, but read on.
>>
>> On 2016-03-16 11:47, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>>
>>> I validated the cable and the TV via a DVD player.  Which leaves the
>>> problem to be a software problem or some of incompatibility between
>>> the laptop's hardware and the cable/TV interaction combo.
>>>
>>
>> According to the internet, the laptop has one of those dual-graphics-card
>> chipsets in it.  (Intel HD Graphic 530 and GeForce 960M.)  I don't know
>> which card is responsible for handling the HDMI port.  According to
>> https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ , the 960M is in the
>> NV110 class of hardware and so should be able to do HDMI with the nouveau X
>> module.  However, the nouveau FAQ says, "If you have a laptop with dual
>> Intel/Nvidia graphics, the Nvidia card may or may not be usable. The card
>> may be selectable via vgaswitcheroo or a BIOS option, you should check
>> those first."
>>
>> So:  See where the HDMI port is with lspci, maybe see what you can find
>> in the BIOS Setup, and investigate the "vgaswitcheroo" program?
>>
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