I'm using Arch Linux on a small HTPC called an Xtreamer, which has an Nvidia GT218/ION graphics card and HDMI out. My television is an Orion DL40-71BK (manual, note everything's in Japanese).
HDMI video output works fine on some settings, for example 1440×900 and 1280×720, and xrandr shows many modes without any X11 configuration, including 1920×1080@60Hz (which it lists as the preferred mode). Full xrandr output follows:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1440 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
1920x1080 60.05 + 60.00 59.94 60.00
1440x900 59.89*
1360x768 60.02
1280x1024 60.02
1280x768 59.87
1280x720 60.00 59.94
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
720x480 59.94 60.05
640x480 59.94 59.93
One thing I do not understand here: What are the columns to the right of 60.00 in the 1920×1080 line?
Anyway, the problem is if I use xrandr to switch to the 1920×1080 mode (or let X11 do so by default on startup) my television shows a black screen and an error (非対応の入力信号, "unsupported input signal"). This also happens if I use the nvidia-settings
tool to set the resolution (it also lists 1920×1080 as supported, but has the same error).
I can find this error a few places online, but nothing to with Linux, just people having problems with game consoles and older versions of the TV.
I know the TV works with 1920×1080; the manufacturer lists it and my PS3 uses 1080p just fine.
What can I do to use 1920×1080 on my TV? Is there some configuration I've overlooked?
Best Answer
Thanks to brm's comment and reading the
xrandr
man page, I figured out what the issue was. There were two problems:First, I'd always used xrandr's
-s
option, which specifies size, rather than the newer--mode
option. This almost always works anyway, and in this case switching toxrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080
didn't fix things. However, it was needed to deal with the second problem: refresh rates.Apparently the default refresh rate for 1920x1080 wasn't actually supported by my TV (thus the signal error), so I had to specify 60Hz.
xrandr -s 1920x1080 -r 60
gave the errorRate 60.00 Hz not available for this size
, as did using any of the other frequences listed in the xrandr output.The final solution was to use this command:
And everything works nicely. I'm still not sure exactly why this works, especially since the man page says
-r
(a 1.1 option) shouldn't work well with--mode
(a 1.2 option). But I'm happy to have my pixels at least.