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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.

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

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

pete910 wrote: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?

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

wintpe wrote: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