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[Peter Rhone <prhone@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is brilliant, it is what I have been trying to do for a while, and
works as advertised.  However, there is a hitch.  I'd like to use my
external monitor for some gaming, but this messes with synergy pretty
badly and is a completely unusable.  Perhaps the solution would be as
simple as setting the synergy "server" to be on :8 (haven't tried that
yet, but I doubt that would really work). I have a USB mouse & keyboard
connected, and ideally I could set them, along with the HDMI monitor, to
work together as one unit.  I haven't been able to get this to work yet,
though. So far, my non-working InputDevice sections of
/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia looks like this:


Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-046a_Das_Keyboard-event-kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "Logitech"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse2"
EndSection

This doesn't work. Both keyboards and mice are active on the first
display, and the hdmi gets no input at all.

Maybe I have to manually set the keyboard and mouse for the intel chip /
built-in display?  I don't know if the "CorePointer" stuff is relevant
in the ServerLayout section. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Peter

On 06/30/2012 05:58 PM, Heikki Wilenius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have good news regarding Bumblebee and HDMI. My external monitor now
> works with native resolution!
>
> I'm using Z13 (Nvidia 330m GPU) and Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> I was lead to the right track after reading this:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/3024/good-nvidia-drivers-for-a-geforce-gt-330m-on-a-vaio-laptop
>
> Like described in the link above, I disabled nouveau in Grub, just in
> case it makes a difference:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nouveau.modeset=0"
>
> The tricky bit is to get the EDID info to the X server. I did a search
> for "edid" under /sys/, while the monitor was connected to the HDMI
> output, and found the EDID path. I then put that info to the
> xorg.conf.nvidia file.
>
> Also I installed xserver-xorg-input-void to disable mouse and keyboard
> from doubling on the external monitor.
>
> Here's the xorg.conf.nvidia:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier "Layout0"
>     InputDevice  "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice  "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>     Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier "Device1"
>     Driver "nvidia"
>     VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     Option "NoLogo" "true"
>     Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
>     Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier      "Keyboard0"
>     Driver          "void"
>     Option          "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier      "Mouse0"
>     Driver          "void"
>     Option          "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> * * *
>
> The bumblebee config file was edited like described in
> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-monitor-setup.
>
> Last step was to install synergy so that the external monitor can be
> controlled with the laptop mouse and keyboard, see instructions here:
>
> http://itviking.net/blog/m11xr3-bumblebee-and-the-dual-screen-setup
>
> * * *
>
> So now I can start a terminal, and type
>
> optirun true
> export DISPLAY=:8 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia-current:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> and then start any program from that terminal window. I use awesome to
> get a lightweight window manager on the external monitor.
>
> Using itviking's synergy config file, I'll just drag my mouse over the
> right edge of the screen to switch focus to the external monitor.
>
> Haven't yet figured out whether this messes up with Bumblebee's power
> management features. At least the parallel X server doesn't get
> started before it is used.
>
> Anyway, I really needed to use the HDMI output, so I'm happy now. =)
>
> Sorry for the rambling write-up, but I hope this'll be of use to some of you!
>
> Heikki
>
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