In article , bob prohaska
 writes:

> Greg Berchin  wrote:
> >
> > Once I realized that my Pi was actually booting, just not enabling HDMI,
> > I did some online searching and some experimentation. For whatever
> > reason my Pi isn't recognizing my monitor upon the initial boot --
> > perhaps it's because the monitor is in standby; I don't know. But
>
> In my case it was slightly different. The issue seemed to be whether
> a monitor was plugged into the HDMI port. It didn't matter if the
> monitor was turned on. Seemingly there's a sense resistor or something
> that tells the Pi a monitor is connected. I'm not even sure it's in
> the monitor, it might be the cable.

I have

hdmi_force_hotplug=1

in my /boot/config.txt file (among other lines), which addresses this
very issue.

--
Mike Fleming

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