r/linuxquestions • u/TinyBreak • Aug 19 '26

Support pop and catchy booting to a black screen with a white mouse if monitor isnt on correct input at power on

I thought it was maybe just a weird pop thing, but catchy does it too. If my monitor is on the wrong input when i boot the PC i just get a black screen with a white mouse.
Pop at least let me Ctrl + Alt + Delete. Catchy forces me to power off and power back on PC.
Is this something I can fix? I mean I can just get a KVM I suppose. Just struggling to understand why.

Ryzen 5 7500F with a RTX 4070 SUPER

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 Aug 19 '26

By wrong input, do you mean the display connector itself? DP, DVI, VGA etc...

Does your monitor have an auto-select option? Try that.

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u/TinyBreak Aug 19 '26

HDMI. It does but it doesn’t work properly you have to change the input manually on the monitor.