[mythtv-users] Nvidia with DVI-to-HDMI blank screen during boot

Albert Graham agraham at g-b.net
Mon Jul 20 17:34:20 UTC 2009


On 07/20/2009 02:37 PM, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 4:16 PM -0400 7/17/09, zablal baz wrote:
>> Whenever I boot the system, I have to wait for X to start before 
>> anything appears on the display.
>
> You might check to see if your lilo/grub.conf includes a "vga" 
> parameter. If so, it might be set to something your display can't 
> handle. Try removing it, rerunning lilo or grub, and rebooting.
You could also try adding the nomodeset kernel line parameter, also some 
HDMI inputs only support full resolution on a single port (probably HDMI1)

I'd also comment out these two lines to:

#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu


Albert.



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