On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > New question about HDMI. I have a pretty nice video card that has a 15 > pin connector and HDMI. Do I have to do anything special to use the > HDMI or does it just send the same signal to both connectors? I have my > monitor hooked to the 15 pin connector but would like to hook my TV to > the HDMI connector. Same signal on both is fine with me. I would just > rather watch movies and such on my TV instead of my monitor. I googled > a while back and just couldn't figure out how this works. It seems to > me that it works different based on how it is set up or something. My > card is Nvidia and it is a GT220 with 1Gb of ram. It was donated so no > links or anything.
If you use the nvidia-drivers package you should also emerge nvidia-settings, which has a nice GUI that will let you configure the multiple screens and decide how you'd like to treat them.
