Hi, my primary monitor is a LCD HDMI2 and the secondary monitor is a CRT VGA1. The CRT monitor is only turned on on demand, but always connected by VGA. The BIOS is shown on both monitors, but the syslinux menu only on the CRT, as long as the CRT is connected by VGA. Even if it's turned off, the syslinux menu isn't shown on the LCD connected by HDMI. [root at archlinux ~]# pacman -Q syslinux syslinux 6.03-7 Is there a way to get the syslinux menu displayed on both monitors or at least only on the LCD monitor? FWIW xrandr shows HDMI1 and HDMI2, but there is only one HDMI output assigned to HDMI2. Regards, Ralf
On 08/15/17 04:53, Ralf Mardorf via Syslinux wrote:> Hi, > > my primary monitor is a LCD HDMI2 and the secondary monitor is a CRT > VGA1. The CRT monitor is only turned on on demand, but always connected > by VGA. > > The BIOS is shown on both monitors, but the syslinux menu only on the > CRT, as long as the CRT is connected by VGA. Even if it's turned off, > the syslinux menu isn't shown on the LCD connected by HDMI. > > [root at archlinux ~]# pacman -Q syslinux > syslinux 6.03-7 > > Is there a way to get the syslinux menu displayed on both monitors or at > least only on the LCD monitor? > > FWIW xrandr shows HDMI1 and HDMI2, but there is only one HDMI output > assigned to HDMI2. > > Regards, > Ralf >Is that true for vesamenu only, or even for text mode syslinux? Most likely there isn't much that syslinux can do about it, since it relies on the BIOS to set up the screen for it. -hpa
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:46:46 -0700, H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux wrote:>Is that true for vesamenu only, or even for text mode syslinux?Hi, I'm using menu.c32 (text mode only), this is the complete config: [root at archlinux ~]# cat /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 600 UI menu.c32 MENU HIDDEN MENU CLEAR MENU COLOR screen 0;30;40 MENU COLOR border 0;30;40 MENU COLOR title 1;37;44 MENU COLOR unsel 0;37;40 MENU COLOR hotkey 1;37;40 MENU COLOR hotsel 7;37;40 MENU COLOR sel 7;37;40 MENU COLOR disabled 1;37;40 MENU COLOR scrollbar 0;30;40 MENU COLOR tabmsg 0;30;40 MENU COLOR cmdmark 0;31;40 MENU COLOR cmdline 0;37;40 MENU COLOR timeout_msg 0;37;40 MENU COLOR timeout 1;37;40 # Used hotkeys: ^8 ^A ^e ^H ^L ^M ^P ^Q ^R ^t ^V DEFAULT Pussytoes MENU TITLE HAL 9000 LABEL Toolbox MENU LABEL Toolbox MENU DISABLE MENU SEPARATOR LABEL Hardware MENU LABEL ^Hardware Detection COM32 hdt.c32 LABEL Memtest MENU LABEL Memtest^86+ LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/memtest86+.bin LABEL Reset MENU LABEL R^eset COM32 reboot.c32 MENU SEPARATOR MENU SEPARATOR LABEL Arch Menu MENU LABEL Arch Linux MENU DISABLE MENU SEPARATOR LABEL Threadirqs MENU LABEL Arch Linux ^threadirqs LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro threadirqs INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img LABEL Pussytoes MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt ^Pussytoes LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-pussytoes APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-pussytoes.img LABEL Persianrug MENU LABEL Arch Linux Rt Persian ^Rug LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt-persianrug APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt-persianrug.img LABEL Rt MENU LABEL Arch ^Linux Rt LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-rt APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro INITRD ../initramfs-linux-rt.img LABEL Arch MENU LABEL ^Arch Linux LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux APPEND root=LABEL=archlinux ro INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img MENU SEPARATOR MENU SEPARATOR LABEL Other Menu MENU LABEL Other Linux MENU DISABLE MENU SEPARATOR LABEL Moonstudio MENU LABEL Ubuntu X ^Moon Studio lowlatency LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency APPEND root=LABEL=moonstudio ro INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency LABEL Light MENU LABEL Ubuntu ^Q LightScribe Rt LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14 APPEND root=LABEL=q ro nomodeset INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_q/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt14 LABEL Suse MENU LABEL ^Vintage SUSE 11.2 Rt LINUX /.boot/suse11.2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-rt19 APPEND root=LABEL=suse11.2 INITRD /.boot/suse11.2/boot/initrd-2.6.31.6-rt19 [root at archlinux ~]# Regards, Ralf