GM45 HDMI output

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu Sep 23 14:24:27 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 15:07 -0500, tsuraan wrote:

> So, there's no apparent HDMI output listed there.  This laptop is a
> hybrid graphics machine with an nVidia card; is it possible that the
> nVidia card "owns" the HDMI port and the Intel one just cannot see it,
> or do I have something misconfigured?

That is exactly the case.  On hybrid graphics machines with Intel GPUs,
the only digital output that the Intel chip can touch is LVDS.  DVI,
HDMI, and DisplayPort are on the discrete GPU only.

- ajax
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