Mimo monitors. External/secondary display

[teookie]

Like many others, I have my GBPVR box hooked up to my plasma TV and am using no other monitor. This is troublsome at times because the computer will sometimes not restart the display driver when coming out of sleep unless the TV is already on. This issue has gotten more complex now that I have a HDMI capable receiver in the mix. Solutions are either sleeping and waking the computer again, or remoting into it with a laptop which forces the display to kick back in. It's a hassle to do either of these things though. Additionally it's a bit of a pain doing computer maintenance/tweeking when your only interface is a wireless keyboard/mouse and a 42" Tv hanging on a wall 10' from the nearest chair, so I've been trying to find a good secondary monitor that will not be an eye sore to the wife.

These ones look like they just might do it. http://www.mimomonitors.com/ Should also be able to use it to browse and play music on the GBPVR machine w/o turning on the TV, which would be super cool, I think. I just wish that they plugged into the computers VGA port instead of USB. I don't know if it's going to help with the whole video driver not coming back on issue if it's got it's own, separate video driver from the one displaying stuff on the plasma. Oh well, pretty cool anyways. What do ya'll think?

[pBS]

hmm,just a thought...try hooking up the vga cable from video card to tv vga input..
even tho you don't have it selected on tv, it may still wake up tv..
[vga port has benefit of sleep mode, tv can go to sleep and be woke with pc by just moving mouse..plus auto wake from suspend modes]
was thinking maybe it'll wake tv for you in time to ready for hdmi..
also, in ccc, try forcing detection of tv,thus leaving it always on to the driver..and some hdmi switchboxes cache display info mimic-ing the display even when it's not on..
check reciever manual for a setting to keep hdmi active always...but have a feeling it's just doing pass-thru of tv problems..

i doubt the usb thing will solve tv display problem, it will wake and work itself, but not the tv..
there is some way of tickling the hardware awake when coming back from resume, but it depends on your system/tv..
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