I recently purchased a Bush 42' HD ready LED FS TV with HDMI ports. That within device manager I could change the default monitor driver to.

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I installed the latest version of mint on an old PC. If I start up with the VGA cable connected to an old monitor it works fine. If I then unplug the cable from the monitor and transfer it to the PC socket on the TV, it still works fine with the TV as monitor. But I can't get it to boot up with the TV as monitor. It says: “invalid format” on the screen when I try. I have poked about in display settings, but it seems that there is some mis-communication between the TV and the Computer during boot. I would like the PC to ignore whatever the TV asks of it (or tells it) and start up as if it were still connected to the monitor.

It’s an early “HD Ready” TV by Bush with a VGA port for PC at the back. The TV is a Bush model S632D If I change the screen resolution settings on the old monitor the TV works fine, until I boot up with the cable plugged into the back of it, then some communication between the TV and PC screws things up, and I have to use the old monitor to sort things out.

The old monitor likes things displayed in 1440x900, this also looks good on the TV screen when I unplug from the monitor and plug into the VGA at the back of the TV When I start up with the PC plugged into the TV it sets it to 1280x1024, but I don't know this until I have uncoupled the back and plugged it into the old monitor, which displays at 1280x1024 but suggests I alter the settings to 1440x900. If I start up with the PC attached to the monitor in safe mode, and then go out of safe mode, ignoring the message which says 'Please note that some drivers require a full graphical boot and so will fail when resuming from recovery' the TV Screen works at 1280x1024, but is slow to play video. Telling me that 'Cinnamon is now running without video hardware acceleration' (Incidentally I had earlier tried Lubuntu and had similar problems to the ones that I am now experiencing, but the method of booting through recovery mode worked without problems) In that mode I am offered some options to change the screen resolution and it looks best at 1024x768. ME - $ inxi -fx CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-HT-) Cache: 1024 KB bmips 5582.45 Clock Speeds: 1: 2791.227 MHz 2: 2791.227MHz CPU Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca c mov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni d tes64 monitor ds cpl cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ME - $ xrandr (at this point the TV screen went dead.

“Invalid format” so I plugged into the monitor and read.) Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 32767 x 32767 VGA1 connected primary 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 365mm x 274mm 1280x1024 85.0+ 75.0 60.0* 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 720x400 70.1 VIRTUAL1 Disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis). Sorry about that. Anyway: the TV screen went off after the first few lines of this appeared, so I had to reconnect the monitor again. Crack scene faro. Unfortunately I had to use the monitor for the xrandr command. However, in my previous post the Xrandr reading was done whilst it was connected to the TV. Code: Section 'ServerLayout' Identifier 'Layout0' Screen 0 'Screen0' 0 0 EndSection Section 'Monitor' Identifier 'Monitor0' Option 'PreferredMode' '1368x768' Modeline '1368x768_60.00' 1440 1584 1800 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section 'Device' Identifier 'Device0' Driver 'intel' Option 'Monitor-VGA1' 'Monitor0' EndSection Section 'Screen' Identifier 'Screen0' Device 'Device0' Monitor 'Monitor0' DefaultDepth 24 SubSection 'Display' Depth 24 Modes '1368x768' EndSubSection EndSection Reboot.