Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Sunday, 14 July 2024 06:08:27 BST Dale wrote:

> I then plugged the TV into the new rig.  KDE saw that right away and
> popped up a screen wanting to know what to do.  I just closed it and
> went to KDE settings then Display and Monitor section.  I arranged the
> monitors like I wanted, several times.  It would pop up a window asking
> if I wanted to keep the settings.  Problem is, finding where the mouse
> pointer went.  After three or four tries, I finally was able to hit the
> Keep button before it reverted back and I had to set it up again.  I did
> set it up as described earlier.  It's early on yet but it worked.  Next
> is setting up xorg.conf for this.  Gotta add the TV as "Right of" and
> all that. 

Do you even need an xorg.conf at all, if the Plasma Display settings can set 
up your monitors/TV reliably, as you want them?


> I did run into a error when trying to copy a couple video test files
> from a USB stick to the desktop.  The error was this:   'The file or
> folder message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
> does not exist.'  It was confusing to say the least.  It reads like it
> went through a translator or something.  I checked to make sure
> everything was mounted rw correctly, checked permissions and such. 
> Everything was set correctly.  Did a search and dug out a thread on the
> forums.  It said the kernel had to have the Fuse driver enabled.  I'm
> not sure why but OK, I enabled and rebuilt the kernel.  When I booted
> the new kernel, I could copy files over.  Weird but it works, cool.  :-) 

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473733


> Before connecting the TV and all, I tested the audio.  Soundless. 
> Earlier, I thought it was able to detect nothing plugged into the output
> jack.  Well, it appears it just didn't have any devices.  I enabled the
> driver the boot media uses and lspci -k showed it as loaded on the new
> install.  It seemed to be missing some decode stuff after a bit of
> searching.  It so happens, my old rig and the new rig has almost
> identical audio chips.  I just pulled up menuconfig on both in a Konsole
> and enabled the same things on the new rig that I had on the old rig. 
> Recompiled the kernel and rebooted.  I have sound to the output jacks
> now.  That also likely helped me to have audio on the TV as well. 

These links are for MSWindows OS, but corresponding settings to Linux should 
also work for video cards which include audio processing capability:

https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en-us/
mergedProjects/nvdsp/To_set_up_digital_audio_on_your_graphics_card.htm

https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en-us/
mergedProjects/nvdsp/Set_Up_Digital_Audio.htm

https://www.xda-developers.com/set-up-nvidia-high-definition-audio-is-it-worth-using/


> I haven't posted much but I been busy.  I also checked the serial
> numbers of the monitors.  One ends in 231 while other ends in 240.  They
> are 9 digits apart.  About as identical as one can get.  ;-) 

You can compare the EDIDs in Xorg.0.conf to see if they are the same.

It seems you're making good progress with your new PC & monitors.  :-)

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