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From: Paul Gardiner <lists@glidos.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Does the intel driver support faking a connected monitor?
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:52:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d89b2287-51dc-87a5-4e38-022b0b8da648@glidos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg98ox2i.fsf@intel.com>

On 17/11/2020 14:52, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Paul Gardiner <lists@glidos.net> wrote:
>> I use an open source DVR called MythTV. I've just swapped from using
>> nvidia graphics to intel graphics. Generally it's working great, but
>> I've run into one thing I used to do with the old system that I cannot
>> find out how to achieve with the new.
>>
>> MythTV doesn't currently entirely handle starting without a TV
>> connected. With nvidia graphics I could specify, within the X config,
>> the "ConnectMonitor" and "CustomEDID" options to fool MythTV into
>> thinking there was a TV. With intel graphics I can load EDID, but so far
>> I haven't discovered an equivalent of the "ConnectedMonitor" option.
> 
> Sorry for the delay, I seem to have missed this.
> 
> Please try a kernel command-line parameter to force enable the
> connector.
> 
> video=TV-1:e
> 
> Assuming the connector name is "TV-1"; replace with whatever you have.


Thanks for the reply. I gave that a try, in my case "video=HDMI1:e", but 
saw no difference. That's KMS, right? Is there anything I might have 
failed to install or enable that KMS relies on? Are there any logs I 
should monitor?
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-21 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 12:32 [Intel-gfx] Does the intel driver support faking a connected monitor? Paul Gardiner
2020-11-17 14:52 ` Jani Nikula
2020-11-21 10:52   ` Paul Gardiner [this message]
2020-11-23 16:19     ` Jani Nikula
2020-11-24 15:03       ` Paul Gardiner
2020-12-04 11:22         ` Paul Gardiner
2020-12-09 10:19           ` Jani Nikula
2020-12-20 10:31             ` Paul Gardiner
2020-12-21 14:04               ` Jani Nikula

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