* don fisher <hdf3@comcast.net> [04-13-15 22:32]:
I have tried everything I can think of, including building a new 13.2 system, but I cannot get openSuse to boot with an external monitor attached. I do not understand the different layers present in openSuse, and why one is required to open the system settings and manually configure the external display after the boot. What does the Display and Monitor application know about that the system is ignorant of before my manual intervention. [...]
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. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org