No doubt others know the agony of dealing with win7 and it's "ability" to dynamically deal with displays. I hate it. I don't want it thinking for itself. I want to force the outputs to a specifc value and LEAVE IT THAT WAY.
So how the heck do I get this done? How can I configure my nvidia video card to always push a specific video output, duplicated, on both the HDMI and the VGA ports? I do this because I've got the HDMI connected to a home theater display and the VGA connected to a KVM on my desk. This so I can flip over to the HTPC VGA output and deal with reconfiguring things without have to deal with using the HTPC display and keyboard setups. As in, the wife wants to see a disc/media center/netflix/whatever from the PC and cannot be bothered to untangle how to do it on her own.
The maddening thing here is if I switch off the HDMI display the PC then "forgets" about it and won't always "remember" it when it comes back on.
So what do I need to do to the nvidia or win7 configurations to undo this "intelligence" it attempts to use?
And, let me guess, doing so will screw around with HDCP, right? So what external gimzo should I get to "negotiate" the HDCP handshaking.
I hope there's a special place in Hell for the RIAA/MPAA/whomever engineers that unleashing this insanity upon the rest of us. All it does is convince to me AVOID making use of so-called legitimate media sources. To hell with using the real disc I bought or rented, as it's copy protection is hell bent on preventing me from actually USING IT! No, instead I'll just rip it to local media and stream it from there instead. F'youverymuch you bastards.
Anyway, is there a clean way to do this? I seem to recall there being some hacks to the dynamic monitor detection stuff, but that may have been for an ATI (>spit<) I wrestled with some time ago.
HELP!
So how the heck do I get this done? How can I configure my nvidia video card to always push a specific video output, duplicated, on both the HDMI and the VGA ports? I do this because I've got the HDMI connected to a home theater display and the VGA connected to a KVM on my desk. This so I can flip over to the HTPC VGA output and deal with reconfiguring things without have to deal with using the HTPC display and keyboard setups. As in, the wife wants to see a disc/media center/netflix/whatever from the PC and cannot be bothered to untangle how to do it on her own.
The maddening thing here is if I switch off the HDMI display the PC then "forgets" about it and won't always "remember" it when it comes back on.
So what do I need to do to the nvidia or win7 configurations to undo this "intelligence" it attempts to use?
And, let me guess, doing so will screw around with HDCP, right? So what external gimzo should I get to "negotiate" the HDCP handshaking.
I hope there's a special place in Hell for the RIAA/MPAA/whomever engineers that unleashing this insanity upon the rest of us. All it does is convince to me AVOID making use of so-called legitimate media sources. To hell with using the real disc I bought or rented, as it's copy protection is hell bent on preventing me from actually USING IT! No, instead I'll just rip it to local media and stream it from there instead. F'youverymuch you bastards.
Anyway, is there a clean way to do this? I seem to recall there being some hacks to the dynamic monitor detection stuff, but that may have been for an ATI (>spit<) I wrestled with some time ago.
HELP!
