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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> New question about HDMI. I have a pretty nice video card that has a 15 |
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>> pin connector and HDMI. Do I have to do anything special to use the |
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>> HDMI or does it just send the same signal to both connectors? I have my |
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>> monitor hooked to the 15 pin connector but would like to hook my TV to |
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>> the HDMI connector. Same signal on both is fine with me. I would just |
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>> rather watch movies and such on my TV instead of my monitor. I googled |
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>> a while back and just couldn't figure out how this works. It seems to |
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>> me that it works different based on how it is set up or something. My |
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>> card is Nvidia and it is a GT220 with 1Gb of ram. It was donated so no |
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>> links or anything. |
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> If you use the nvidia-drivers package you should also emerge |
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> nvidia-settings, which has a nice GUI that will let you configure the |
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> multiple screens and decide how you'd like to treat them. |
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I have that installed but I guess I have to plug it up to be able to do |
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anything related to settings. I need to try this one day. It could be |
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that HDMI has a better picture somehow. |
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Thanks for the info tho. At least now I know where to set this up. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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