Crap! HDMI... :( Help!

[Stephen Partington]

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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