hdmi out

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 01:57:13 EDT 2013


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:

> On 18/08/13 17:05, Barry Vercoe wrote:
>
>> OK, with tail -f ... messages, I do see a burst of messages and the
>> projector shows the exact screen.  But only for 15 seconds, when the
>> projector then goes blank and reverts to _No Signal_ until I touch
>>
>> something on the XO like the screen, track pad or some key.  Apparently
>> the XO has stopped sending hdmi signals, so the projector is reporting
>> exactly that.
>>
>
> When the display goes blank, does the power light start flashing to
> indicate the laptop has gone to sleep?
>
> Try turning off power saving in the settings. When I was testing, the
> power saving automatically turned off when I plugged in an external display
> and turned on again when I unplugged it, but perhaps this isn't working on
> your laptop?
>

I think you guys are right on about what is happening.  Is this a 13.2.0
build or something older?  I can't remember at what point we added the
hooks to let powerd check for the hdmi connection status and act
accordingly.

-Jon
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