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Hey, I've successfully installed and configured my Yosemite hackintosh, now my multi monitor setup (24" 1920x1080 + 19" 1280x1024) works fine in OS X itself, But even though i set my 24" one as my main monitor, the login screen keeps showing on my secondary 19" one.

 

Anybody got any idea on how to fix this?

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Switch ports?

 

I use DisplayPort + DVI. For a long time I was using a single monitor on the DisplayPort.

 

When I connected my second display to DVI, BIOS screens and boot process moved to the second display. I assumed I'd have to live with that.

 

My GTX 660 has two DVI ports. I switched DVI ports by accident one day when I was cleaning. Now, the BIOS, login screen and everything else is back on the display that's connected to the DisplayPort.

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I have an issue which may be the same/similar.

 

For whichever video output is set as primary, I can only boot successfully if I actually connect to the secondary output.

 

E.g. if I want to use DP I must set HDMI as primary and DP as secondary (or else it never reaches the desktop). Similarly if I want to use HDMI then I need to set DP as primary or again it simply fails to reach the desktop.

 

System is a  Haswell NUC with HD 5000.

 

BTW, with Mavericks - using the same Clover setup (rev 2721) -  everything is okay…...

 

Other than that, all seems good.

 

Any ideas ?

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Go to display and drag the white bar at the top of the incorrect screen to the top of the primary screen. Help this helps!

 

~shad0whack3r

 

 

EDIT: Sorry, seems I didn't read the thread through... This post must be pretty useless. :D

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Go to display and drag the white bar at the top of the incorrect screen to the top of the primary screen. Help this helps!

 

~shad0whack3r

 

 

EDIT: Sorry, seems I didn't read the thread through... This post must be pretty useless. :D

 

Yep, pretty much….

 

Think I am happy that for the moment there is nothing for me to do and I can live with it.

 

Looks like this bizarre quirk is hopefully a bug that will resolve itself with upcoming DP. Either that or more people will notice and report it and a solution will be found. It's not a huge deal, but does mean that at start up I have to deal with low res graphics until the desktop arrives (in full QE/CI….).

 

Very likely there are quite a few people out there who think that they can't boot 10.10 at all because they never tried it on their secondary graphics connection.

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I have the same issue with the latest Maverick patch and with Yosmite dp1/dp2, primary screen switched, i think its an issue with the newer nvidia drivers.

 

Switching the primary screen in control panel helps (drag the white bar).

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  • 4 months later...

Did anyone ever solve this issue in official Yosemite release? I'm using a laptop and have this issue. The only thing that disturbs me is that the number of desktop in the Mission Control increases on each boot. 

 

One thing that I noticed is that at the login screen, it has a default arrangement in which my laptop screen will be on the left upper of my external monitor. Is there any way we can change the default arrangement?

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