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Re: [LUG] HDMI Woes again

 

Hi All

I thought I had cracked the whole hdmi thing but it all went **** up! So I bought a separate card to see if that would help. Installed and at first great but now the card is not recognised and so no hdmi. I have installed Fedora on my laptop to give it a quick test. I would like to get to the bleeding edge that Mr Meowski was suggesting. Do I need to do anything please?

I am running Fedora 26, kernel 4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64

Is that bleeding edge please?

Thanks

Rich


On 28 September 2017 at 22:42, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just go get the cheapest thing going, for what you'll be using it for, it really doesn't matter on performance.

a 1050ti would be overkill for example.

On 28 September 2017 at 21:53, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any thoughts on graphics cards please?

Thanks

Rich


On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, 8:32 a.m. Richard Brown, <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Both of you

Sorry I haven't come back to you on this. Not very well at the moment - I am waiting for an emergency op on a double hernia and doing email just sometimes doesn't happen.

If Daniel solution works that would be brilliant.

I did check to see if there is a handy list of graphics card that I could be bought and work with Ubuntu.

Thanks for the advice re the kernel as well. One day I might invest in another system and give it a go - I need to get better first and I need the space for it!Â

Thanks

Rich


On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 21:36 Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cool, thanks for clearing that up... so all we need here is a very cheap PCI-E graphics card. Is that what you're suggesting?

something like this for example..

http://www.ebuyer.com/806221-asus-geforce-gt-710-graphics-card-gt710-sl-1gd5

On 26 September 2017 at 17:51, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26/09/17 07:33, Daniel Robinson wrote:
> "Specifically in your case, I'd try a different and more bleeding edge
> distribution - not just the latest Ubuntu. You're quite likely going to
> need to boot with a modified kernel stanza via grub as well I think for
> kernel mode setting."
>
> What is so vastly different with his CPU that you'd need to do so much
> monkey business to get it to work with Linux?

Nothing - it's the integrated GPU that's the problem. It's very common
to have to coax some display hardware into life by manually passing KMS,
i915=0 or blacklist parameters to the kernel via Grub. Not helped by
Ubuntu's relatively slow uptake of newer kernels (as compared to SuSE,
Fedora, Arch, etc) and equally slow adoption of the newer mesa and Xorg
stacks which come with explicit support for newer configurations.

I've got an old school pre-Lenovo ThinkPad, an Atom netbook, a modifed
Chromebook and a MacBook within arms reach that all need modified boot
stanzas to work properly under X with Linux. On the plus side, they do
all now actually work after some initial hair-pulling not dissimilar to
Richard's current problems - black screens mostly.

Â\_(ã)_/Â

You know the deal by now - Linux is great, but it's a pain in the arse
to get it to work right sometimes...

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