[Intel-gfx] Support for HDMI on ASUS P5E-VM HDMI (G35 chipset)

[Mike Wright]

Gordon,

Thanks very for your efforts Gordon and team.  If I can get some
stable behaviour i'll submit a bug report.  I'm glad your team has the
board :-)

Mike.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Jin, Gordon <gordon.jin at intel.com> wrote:
> Mike Wright wrote on Monday, May 19, 2008 1:36 PM:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having problems getting HDMI to work on my ASUS P5E-VM HDMI.  I'll
>> post xorg.conf and logs soon.  I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and the
>> latest Intel XORG driver and DRM kernel part from GIT.  I have also
>> tried other versions of the driver like 2.3.0.
>
> You might search on the bugzilla first.
>
> Many people on this list use the ASUS P5E-VM HDMI. They have problem
> with HDMI more or less (Is there anyone getting HDMI working
> perfectly?). Someone (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13968)
> get black screen like you, someone get display but with some rendering
> issue like me.
>
> My team bought this board specifically for resolving these bugs. But I'm
> sorry we are making slow progress in the recent months. The main issue
> is that P5E-VM is using SDVO HDMI not native HDMI, while the SDVO HDMI
> is not Intel product and we don't have enough documentation on this.
> Hong is working on this and will get this list informed once he get the
> info.
>
>> I have a Pioneer Plasma PDP427XDA connected via a short 1.5m HDMI
>> cable directly to the PC.  VGA works fine with the latest GIT driver.
>>
>> Basically I can only get a black screen or a complete system lookup
>> (no SSH or ping).  I'd like to help out by looking at code and specs
>> and start debugging.
>
> You can check bug#13968 to see if you're getting the same problem for
> black screen.
>
> System lockup is not expected. This is the first I heard about this on
> HDMI. You might file a new bug.
>
>> What I'd like to know is:
>>
>> 1)  Has anyone actually got this combination working?
>> 2)  Does the Mobo BIOS version have any impact on this?
>
> I haven't heard upgrading BIOS resolves the issues.
>
> Gordon
>