does "radeon" driver support HDMI video?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 06:49:47 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski<mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski<mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Alex Deucher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski<mangoo at wpkg.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does "radeon" driver support HDMI video?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not very clear for me after studying the manual and
>>>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or should I rather use "radeonhd" driver? Sound support would be also
>>>>> nice.
>>>>
>>>> Both drivers support HDMI video.  At the moment only radoenhd supports
>>>> HDMI audio.
>>>
>>> OK, so this means that my HDMI-connected monitor is somehow not detected.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to force-enable HDMI with radeon driver?
>>
>> You can use xrandr:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
>
> It's rather hard to use when you're not even logged in as you can't see the
> login box ;)

You can force outputs on in your xorg.conf

Alex



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