From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QiUd5-0004Dr-5v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:55:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9481921C1EC; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC9521C209 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1422114ewy.40 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:54:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oKKLuF2GcSdlYrIbWfrDeiQe4j8ZHFcoWjLINmlz6NI=; b=bVCO9N79Qq19F5X8a0rgGRSk+268Psp8TSkz1OdWREt1BGTscucx7Y8Y9P0zZ7e87D HTz9Z1mwMxKmCLFFWGNyj51ZRmAf4kEo0czMAHCeIiHBZfRjBUpOwyaBonisTDaGkwYL pgcEXONB/Sjm6jyrnyugxLL4Uj6134wb4KdkA= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.20.72 with SMTP id o48mr1950182eeo.17.1310921673168; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.50.203 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:54:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110710002013.GB3068@solfire> <20110713022717.GA3026@solfire> <20110713173836.GC3026@solfire> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:54:33 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with xf86-video-ati & nvidia-drivers From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fe72fd6b827fb535ea7da22dd511e626 >>>> I gave it a try but there was no change. =A0I tried plugging the TV an= d >>>> computer into a power strip and also into an isolation transformer. >>>> Any other ideas? >>> >>> I still think it's a driver problem. =A0Again: it's *physically* imposs= ible >>> to >>> have these problems with the HDMI signal. =A0At most you get "digital >>> noise", >>> which means some pixels get stuck or are missing. =A0But not what you g= et; >>> that's just something that can't be explained. >> >> I was thinking about this. =A0The digital HDMI signal must be converted >> into an analog signal at some point if it's being represented as light >> on a TV screen. =A0Electrical interference generated by the computer and >> traveling up the HDMI wire should have its chance to affect things >> (i.e. create weird shadows) at that point, right? > > Not with DFPs. =A0Those work digital even internally. =A0I assume of cour= se that > his HDMI TV *is* a DFP. But at some point the 1s and 0s must be converted to some sort of an analog signal if only right behind the diode. A diode must be presented with a signal in some sort of analog form in order to illuminate, right? Digital is just a figment of our imagination after all. - Grant