Separate X screens + custom EDID file not being used

[wonderland]

Hello,

I have a Samsung TV and a Geforce 8600GT. I've connected my PC to my TV by a DVI to HDMI cable and I'm using a 3.5mm cable for audio (no spdif). I modified my EDID file so I can have sound on the TV. It works fine with TwinView, but I experience a tiny bit of tearing with playback. (I may be completely wrong here, but I believe it's because my monitor runs at 60.02Hz and my TV runs at 60Hz?)

So I searched around a little to solve this and found that separate X screens was a possible solution. I now have two separate X screens running without tearing, but now I can't get audio on the TV! It's as if I've botched up my config file somehow and the driver is just ignorning said EDID file.

Below is my xorg.conf for convenience's sake; I've also attached the output produced by nvidia-bug-report.

Thank you and happy holidays!

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "nvidia0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
    Screen      0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "nvidia1"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusId       "PCI:2:0:0"
    Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier "Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen0"
    Device      "nvidia0"
    Monitor     "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier      "Screen1"
    Device          "nvidia1"
    Monitor         "Monitor1"
    Option          "CustomEDID"             "DFP:/etc/X11/out.bin"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier	   "DualScreen"
    Screen         0 "Screen0" 
    Screen         1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

[sandipt]

I think entry should be like :

Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/out.bin"

or

Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-0:/etc/X11/out.bin"

[wonderland]

Originally Posted by sandipt

I think entry should me like :

Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/out.bin"

or

Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-0:/etc/X11/out.bin"

Hi,

Thanks for replying! I believe I read on this forum that DFP will default to the appropriate one if there is only one DFP connected. That is the case with my setup. In any case, I've switched it back to DFP-1 and I'm afraid it's still not working.

Here's why I believe my hunch that the EDID file is being ignored is true: in nvidia-settings, all of the flat panel information is listed (as opposed to being listed as unknown).



When I tried it with TwinView and a custom EDID file, it listed a lot of things as unknown (and the sound worked).

My temporary fix, for now, is to just disable CRT-0. It's a bit inconvenient, though.

[AaronP]

Could you please try moving the CustomEDID command to the "Screen0" section?

X doesn't have a good way of specifying per-GPU options, so the driver has to pick the options up from one of the two Device or Screen sections. It can lead to counter-intuitive situations like this one.

[wonderland]

Originally Posted by AaronP

Could you please try moving the CustomEDID command to the "Screen0" section?

X doesn't have a good way of specifying per-GPU options, so the driver has to pick the options up from one of the two Device or Screen sections. It can lead to counter-intuitive situations like this one.

That worked! Thank you very much.