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2009-07-21, 09:30
Help required here for a newby. I have followed both instructions for installing the nvidia gfx driver on my new asrock ion 300 nettop but as soon as my machine restarts, my monitor goes blank. I can ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a terminal window but going back to what would be the gnome window, the monitor goes off. The only way for me to overcome this is to go into recovery mode at boot and use xfix to repair video problems and then resume. Going into the Nvidia X Server Settings gives me a message about "you do not appear to be using the nvidia X driver, please edit x configuration using nvidia-xconfig. I do this as root, restart the PC and I am back to a blank monitor!
I am going to try a fresh install as I am going mad here!!
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Ok, tried that. Both from within GNOME and a restart which resulted in the blank monitor or "mode not supported" on the OSD and then via the ctrl+alt+f1 but again blank monitor. I am connecting via HDMI if that makes any difference?!
I have tried both the file download from Nvidia and the repository option.
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DOH!
I tried using a different monitor and it was fine. I then tired using vga 15 pin dsub for the original samsung widescreen and it worked too. I go back to HDMI and it doesn't work. Very strange. I am moving this onto a Sony 42' when I have completed the build so hopefully it will work with HDMI. At least I can now continue. Thanks - and great guide!
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More probs - now that XBMC is setup I have moved the PC to my living room 42' Sony. When connected via HDMI at 1920x1080 the desktop spills out past the frame of the tv and I cannot see everything like toolbars and some shortcuts. I have tried various resolutions and playing with my TV remote but no success. Again if I use the VGA cable, it is fine but I want my sound to be played via HDMI on my TV and now I have changed the settings on XBMC I don't know what they need to be changed back to, to get audio via the soundcard output - if there is no solution to the HDMI video res.
Any ideas?
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I got that problem once...it was because I had the VGA connected as well as the HDMI.
make sure to remove it.
Otherwise I do not know, with my TV (new) it works plug n play. Most things seem to be possible to fix in xorg though, but I do not know how.
You could check the NVIDIA setting utility if there is anything there.
If you delete the guisetting...someting.xml in .xbmc it will be re-generated with detault values.
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This rocks I'm picking up my asrock 330 ion tomorrow. This guide is exactly what I'm looking for, thank you very much.
The only difference I want to do is create 3 partitions windows 7 osx (leopard for now but snow later) and ubuntu.
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mp3 where playing to fast on HDMI.
Changed to "plug:hdmi" as default output device, it seem to be the most simple solution.