• WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de
    62·
    5 hours ago

    I have the opposite problem on my windows pc, it takes so long to boot that the monitor goes into standby before it boots again

    • Ging@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      2·
      13 minutes ago

      I said the same about ubuntu, debian, then arch. I believed arch and it’s wikis/docs were the endgame. I stayed arching through college ( thought endeavorOS was arch meme for awhile, because why would you want an easier arch install? Turns out, college professors are incorrigible to a maddening degree, and finding so many linux workarounds got me in all types of trouble I didn’t fully understand yet–better wipe and reset for sanity sake…again)

      tl;dr I thought all non-windows were jokes before I found precisely what I was looking for all along.

      EDIT: tldr itself reads like a joke, I’m just saying I thought almost all distros were a joke until I felt something better was missing–gentoo is where I’ve been for about a decade now. I’m quite worried nix or guix is the joke I will be maining in the future, but I don’t seem to need any of it’s features just yet, but who knows. I’m willing to be persuaded because of how wrong I’ve been…hell might get a comment today opens my eyes to the declarative life any minute now lol

  • bricked@feddit.org
    14·
    4 hours ago

    I sometimes forget to turn on my monitor in time so my computer doesn’t recognize it and I have to reboot :(

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I have a different problem where if i don’t turn on my monitor in time, it will still work just fine but my motherboard will turn on this annoying little white light that won’t turn off again, so i have to reboot to make it go off again.

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
      13·
      3 hours ago

      if you have a gigabyte motherboard, samsung monitor will have booted seven times and you still have time to make coffee

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    14·
    6 hours ago

    I don’t know about Gentoo, but as a serial dual booter I know this pain well.

    I swear about two thirds of the time going through grub on every boot adds to the process are waiting for my monitor to figure itself out. Half the time it doesn’t get there on time at all.

    • Aedis@lemmy.world
      16·
      5 hours ago

      If your mobo has an efi bootloader, which now-a-days almost all are, make sure grub is also an efi image and don’t allow the early boot to take control of the frame buffer.

      Setting these flags for the bootloader, grub in your case, should make sure the monitor only does a single initialize.

      GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=gfxterm
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

      Source: just went through something similar and was annoyed that the monitor would take forever to start.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I can give that a whirl if it’s not set up like that already, but the monitor is VERY slow on its own. It basically never wakes up in time for the BIOS bootscreen and any signal interruption sends it on a wild goose chase of signal searching around its inputs that can take ten seconds at a time. It’s not a cheap monitor, either, which I assume is part of the problem, as it wants to be super smart about a bunch of things and has to contend with a bunch of options and alternatives that maybe a simpler setup wouldn’t.

        Still, worth a shot to try to tune grub and double check if it’s swapping modes unnecessarily between the bios image and the menu. I hadn’t considered it. Like so many Linux features and app there’s a bunch of stuff you can config on it that I keep not looking into because it’s only surfaced in documentation, if that.

        EDIT: Tried, didn’t help. The motherboard rebooting gives the monitor just enough time to search its display port input, decide it’s been unplugged and shut down, so by the time another monitor picks up the slack it’s too late and the timeout has expired unless you’re mashing down to stop it. The changes do make the second monitor come up at its native resolution instead of changing modes, but the mistake happens elsewhere.

        I could just set a longer timeout, but I’d rather have a faster boot when I’m sticking to the default than wait for the whole mess to sort itself out every time. Been mashing bios entry buttons and bootloader menus since the 90s, what’s a couple decades more.

        Still dumb, though.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    I use an old Sony TV from around 2008 as my monitor, I can turn on the TV and via my laptop screen shut the laptop down then manually boot again and it’ll be fully booted before the TV is ready and showing the desktop. Got it from my neighbours when they tried to throw it out, it’s not amazing but I’m very happy to have it as I wouldn’t have anything other than the even more shitty 720p laptop screen otherwise.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Yup, my Sony Bravia is great for movies except some quirks:

      • takes over 10 seconds to sync to HDMI
      • panel is 1366×768 but only 1360×768 is accessible over HDMI (it can be shifted up to 3 pixels left/right though)
      • its LUT for color brightness is all messed up with RGB HDMI signals, the lowest 30 or so brightness steps map to full black and then the brightness takes off steeply. A YCbCr-capable GPU is needed to correct this (an inverse LUT is techniclly possible but will not compensate for the awfully giant steps in dark areas unless the GPU also adds dithering.