Digital display with NVidia card?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 3/6/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >
> >> Both are attached.
> >
> > OK, will take a look at them in a bit.  It is AM here and just getting
> > started.  Although Lonni is on it.  :-)
> >
> >>> nvidia-xconfig in run level 3 and use the xorg.conf it generated?
> >>>
> >>> I believe that you are able to get the login prompt at level 3, right?
> >>
> >> No, I see no display of virtual consoles.  I did run system-config-display
> >> and nvidia-settings .  I can try nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-config-display
> >> from runlevel 5 later.
> >
> > Sorry, just want to reconfirm a couple of things.
> >
> > 1.  When your system is first powered on, the monitor comes out of standby
> > mode and you do see the system's BIOS screens and if you wanted to you could
> > go into the BIOS settings displays.  Yes?
>
> Now that you mention it, no.  The screen remains blank from power-on to X
> driver start--no POST, no boot messages, no rhgb, no VC.  (In fact, the
> first time I power on the monitor and then the CPU, the monitor appears to
> stay in analog mode until the machine finishes booting.  Then if I power
> the monitor off and on, it detects the digital signal.  After that,
> rebooting produces the result above.)

Sounds like the card you're using has a VBIOS bug.  You need to talk
to whomever manufactured the card, no one here can fix this.

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