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Re: [LUG] HDMI

 

Just thought I would add. Just had a look at the pictures of the motherboard and the final picture shows the rear panel connectors. I am plugging HDMI into the 4th port from the left.

Rich


On 2 September 2017 at 17:40, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok thanks.

I am definitely plugging HDMI in. The input selection on the monitor says HDMI. I don't have a display port cable. I use display port cable at work. Maybe I should try that!

This is the motherboard:
http://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/B250M-HDV/index.aspÂ

Hope that helps.

Rich


On 2 September 2017 at 17:31, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/09/17 17:18, Richard Brown wrote:
> On the dual monitor issue. I ran xrandr and got this:

Ah ha - xrandr can be confusing as it shows all *potential* connections
sometimes including ones that you'd think are disabled or not available.
In this case it's telling us that you're NOT using HDMI at all but
Display Port, which is a similar but also entirely different thing.

Have a careful look at all the pieces of the puzzle involved: are you
actually using the full HDMI chain? Are you definitely using the HDMI
port on the back of your PC, a HDMI cable and the HDMI port on the
monitor itself? xrandr doesn't think so, and it would go a long way to
explaining what's going on here. It looks like at least one of those
three pieces has accidentally got connected to the wrong something.

No wonder you're getting weird results!

It would really help to know which exact motherboard you're using as
well so I can check the physical layout of the connectors. Even with the
similarities between HDMI and DP it would be pretty hard to manage to
plug things in incorrectly but you never know.

Cheers

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