problem with dual video

[arminius]

if I plug my TV in using my HDMI cable, before Mageia is booted, it getś to the boot loader, getś a little further on, then thereś no signal for either displays.

If I boot up with just my moniter plugged in, everything is fine, I plug in the HDMI when Mageia is fully booted and it works fine.

Just annoying I have to keep unplugging and plugging my TV.

[wintpe]

Wild guess, but sounds like the graphics settings in the initrd are setting the frequency or resolution to something that the tv cant support.

Go into i think mcc and boot and see if you can change it to use text mode instead of splash screen.

Regards peter

[pete910]

AMD or Nvidia, Other?

Boot with just your monitor, then plug your TV in. if using KDE got to Sys settings>Display/monitors.

Set you main monitor as the primary output/resolution ect , then set TV as to what you need. I disable mine until i wish to watch a vid/DVD.
Mine is on a HD5870 with cat 12.6.

If the above does not work for you, boot as said and do it in the Catalyst control centre.
Nvidia's is Twinview for your monitor set-up i believe


Pete

[arminius]

AMD or Nvidia, Other?

Boot with just your monitor, then plug your TV in. if using KDE got to Sys settings>Display/monitors.

Set you main monitor as the primary output/resolution ect , then set TV as to what you need. I disable mine until i wish to watch a vid/DVD.
Mine is on a HD5870 with cat 12.6.

If the above does not work for you, boot as said and do it in the Catalyst control centre.
Nvidia's is Twinview for your monitor set-up i believe


Pete

sorry but thats already known to me, I must not have been clear, the problem is that I have to boot up with out the TV installed.

OS: Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop i686
System: openSUSE 12.1 (i586)
KDE: 4.7.2 (4.7.2) "release 5

and video card is the ASUS GTX560 Ti Direct CU II.

Does anyone know how to get it to work with both plugged in?

[wintpe]

that means you have an nvidea card, so perhaps play about with the settings in nvidea settings, under tools menu on start bar, maybe then under system .

if you cant find it there run nvidea-settings from a terminal.

once you have set the settings you need to save the settings, and then re-run at bootup, with your saved settings ( i think, if my memorys correct , while since i last did it).

im sure a search on google of use of nvidea settings will soon finish off the bits ive left out.

regards peter

[arminius]

Wild guess, but sounds like the graphics settings in the initrd are setting the frequency or resolution to something that the tv cant support.

Go into i think mcc and boot and see if you can change it to use text mode instead of splash screen.

Regards peter

I tried Grub with text menu
and LILO with text menu

neither worked, still no signal if the tv is plugged in