[ale] OT: Windows 7 and DVI monitor

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Wed Aug 10 23:15:09 EDT 2016


On 2016-08-10 16:35, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I've had interesting encouter today with Windows and DVI monitor. Monitor blank 
> PC works ok. Booted puppy Linux monitor works fine. Booted again Windows - 
> monitor works up to the point when PC shows boot screen and shows Windows logo 
> and "Windows loading" and after that goes blank. Changed the cable and voila 
> everything is fine.
> 
> I suppose there is signal that monitor returns to the video card and this signal 
> is missing due broken wire therefore Windows driver thinks there is no monitor 
> plugged and not sending video signal.
> 
> Also I guess X server not really care about that signal if puppy Linux was 
> working just fine.
> 
> P.S. PC is dual monitor system so that's how I was able to see the odd behaviour.

I don't think it's a broken wire, I have one system that does the same
thing.  I believe it's actually a bug in the on-chip/on-board video.



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