[mythtvnz] HDMI video cards

Mark de Reeper mark.dereeper at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 20:01:36 GMT 2010


On 24 March 2010 08:05, <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Diverging from the hardware recommendation thread a bit...
>
> Does anyone have a video card with an HDMI connected screen?
> What do you see when you boot it up?
>
> My box is an old AGP card with a DVI-HDMI adapter, and I see nothing on
> the HDMI until X and mythtv start.
>
> The TV is a cheap 720p LCD that does 1366x768 from the VGA connector, or
>   unknown x720 on the HDMI connector.  So I lose a bit off the sides on
> HDMI too.
>
>
> Question is, what would a video card with HDMI output display during
> boot, and what resolution is it?
>
>
I am using a Zotac ION MB and I get the full boot sequence on my TV
connected via HDMI but this is not a card but on-board graphics. It displays
in 1080p as far as I can tell, probably auto-senses from the TV (a Sony 32"
full HD TV).

Mark
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