On 04/13/2015 08:06 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I am running Tumbleweed installed during the 12.0 days and continually
updated. I have an nvidia geforce gts 450 card with the nvidia driver 346.47. My monitor is an hdmi connected samsung 28 inch lcd with a second monitor hdmi connected vizio 50 inch lcd television.
All I did was plug in the hdmi cable and adjust settings using the "Display and Monitor" section from "systemsettings" for each monitor at one time or another.
Booting is a little odd as I do not normally have both monitors active. Booting gives me a green screen on my 28 inch with no prompt (it defaults no matter how I set it to the television). But blindly typing my user password provides access to the graphical environment. I do not have to power up the 50 inch display, just type the password.
This is just a guess to your problems as you fail to offer any discreption of your failure to boot. And I am certain that you tried the multi-user.target (non-graphical), and that you tried reversing the display connections, and that you tried with only one monitor attached.
Or are you discussing attaching an external monitor to a laptop? Or what is it that you want to know?
ps: opensuse will boot w/o *any* monitor attached. My server is configured that way, openSUSE 13.1.
Sorry for not being more complete. I posted this question once before without a solution. I have a Dell 1721 AMD laptop with an AMD/ATI RD690M {Radeon Express 1200/1250/1270] graphics controller. The system boots fine, as I think I suggested, but the sync on the monitors is wrong if I boot with the external VGA monitor plugged in. The monitors are garbled. If I unplug the external monitor, and ctrl-alt-backspace back to the X server, the laptop comes up clean. I can the add the second monitor as you described. My goal is to be able to boot the system using the external monitor only. Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org