[00:12] <media> hey all... can anyone direct me to a channel that might be able to help me figure out connecting to a tv through hdmi
[00:13] <media> i'm having a problem with it
[00:13] <media> something to do with edid...
[00:13] <media> thanks
[00:18] <genii-around> media: Are you using hdmi-hdmi cable or some converter in between? If there is a dvi-hdmi converter then often the os cannot query the tv/monitor for it's capabilities
[00:26] <media> its a straight hdmi>hdmi
[00:27] <media> any ideas?
[00:30] <genii-around> Anyhow.. might want to look into using xrandr to explicitly change the mode for what is probably the HDMI-0 device...  some reference material: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/HDMI http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.htm
[00:30] <media> appreciated. thanks
[00:32] <genii-around> np
[00:32] <media> whoops... second link 404'd
[00:34] <media> what does it mean to "change the mode"?
[00:34] <genii-around> media: The text of the second link copied into pastebin: http://pastebin.com/yB1XuTJA
[00:35] <genii-around> media: Usually you will not for instance be using 1920x1080 on your computer monitor, so you use xrandr to set that mode ( or resolution if you prefer)
[00:36] <media> i'm getting the correct resolution... the problem is with weird colours and periodic flickering
[00:39] <genii-around> What is the result from just: xrandr        on the command line? Might be at 50Hz or some odd refresh
[00:40] <media> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 4096 x 4096
[00:40] <media> VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
[00:40] <media> HDMI1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 698mm x 392mm
[00:40] <media>    1920x1080      60.0*+
[00:40] <media>    1280x720       60.0
[00:40] <media> thats what comes up
[00:40] <media> the flickering only happens every 5 minutes or so
[00:40] <media> its very odd...
[00:40] <genii-around> Yes
[00:41] <media> i think it has something to do with edid tables...
[00:41] <media> do you know anything about that?
[00:41] <media> its a term that came up a bunch during my search
[00:43] <genii-around> I doubt it has much to do with that. The edid is just the information which the monitor/tv reports back to the computer when it's asked what it's capabilities are
[00:43] <genii-around> You're already using 1920x1080@60Hz so it must have been able to understand the tv could use it
[00:44] <media> ok. i understand
[00:45] <media> any other thoughts?
[00:46] <genii-around> The flickering happens if the computer is just sitting there with maybe a webpage or not doing anything, or it happens when you are streaming video to the tv from the computer?
[00:46] <genii-around> ( because ext filesystem will "hiccup" a bit when streaming large files
[00:47] <media> i dont think its that... i can fix the flickering by changing the video input on the TV to something else
[00:52] <genii-around> Perhaps try querying the tv for it's EDID info... first make sure package read-edid is installed... then: get-edid|parse-edid
[00:53] <genii-around> sudo may be required for the get-edid
[00:54] <media> et-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
[00:54] <media> 	Performing real mode VBE call
[00:54] <media> 	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
[00:54] <media> 	Function supported
[00:54] <media> 	Call successful
[00:54] <media> 	VBE version 300
[00:54] <media> 	VBE string at 0x11100 "Intel(r)Q33/Q35/G33 Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS"
[00:54] <media> VBE/DDC service about to be called
[00:54] <media> 	Report DDC capabilities
[00:54] <media> 	Performing real mode VBE call
[00:54] <media> 	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
[00:54] <media> 	Function supported
[00:54] <media> 	Call successful
[00:54] <media> 	Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
[00:54] <media> 	Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
[00:54] <media> 	0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
[00:54] <media> 	Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
[00:55] <media> Reading next EDID block
[00:55] <media> VBE/DDC service about to be called
[00:55] <media> 	Read EDID
[00:55] <media> 	Performing real mode VBE call
[00:55] <media> 	Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
[00:55] <media> 	Function supported
[00:55] <media> 	Call failed
[00:55] <media> The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
[00:55] <media> Error: output block unchanged
[00:55] <media> parse-edid: IO error reading EDID
[00:55] <genii-around> Hm
[00:57] <genii-around> I'm out of immediate ideas
[00:59] <media_> i see... ideas on where i might go next?
[01:01]  * genii-around has another coffee and thinks\\
[01:02] <media_> no one is responding in the xbmc-linux channel
[01:05] <genii-around> There may be some intel driver option for the xorg.conf which is helpful, but offhand I would not know which one(s)
[01:07] <media_> ok thanks anyway.  take care