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Pampa_Party

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Registered: 2025-03-30

Posts: 6

Set primary Monitor during boot Process and luks encryption

Hi,

im using Arch with systemd-boot and Nvidia graphics. I have the problem that i have 2 Monitors and want to set one as my primary monitor for the boot process/luks encryption.

So far i tried:

ls /sys/class/drm/card*-*/status
/sys/class/drm/card1-DP-1/status  /sys/class/drm/card1-DVI-D-1/status  /sys/class/drm/card1-HDMI-A-1/status

One of my monitors is connected with hdmi to hdmi and one with dvi to hdmi. The one i want to set as primary should be the DVI-D-1.  So i tried

 sudo nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux (Encrypted)
linux /vmlinuz-linux-lts
initrd /initramfs-linux-lts.img
options cryptdevice=UUID=ID:NAME root=UUID=ID rw quiet video=DVI-D-1:e

but this doesn´t work. After rebooting he chooses the hdmi monitor as primary again. Anyone can help me out her? Any help is welcome

Best regards