I am completely lost. I have installed linux before with no issue but the Ubuntu installer won't detect my monitor. I have a GTX 970 with a 8350 and my monitor is hooked up with HDMI. Any ideas?
HDMI isn't the straightforward thing for the base nouveau drivers. DVI or VGA are the normalities, but I also use them most of the time.
If it's just not showing up try unplugging the monitor and plugging it back in. If nouveau has HDMI defaults now (I don't use nvidia so I'm not sure) then it may have not detected it or something stupid.
Drivers?
When I installed ubuntu with my 980 I had to plug my monitor into the onboard HDMI, install the drivers, then switch back to my 980. Was kind of a pain.
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I had to break out my old box computer and plug my hard drive from my main rig to install Ubuntu.
When I plugged the hard drive back my monitor showed "invalid format". @Ethereal reminded me about drivers so I went into the command prompt with ctrl-alt-f1. After I installed the latest drivers it finally worked right. Nvidia needs to get there drivers for linux together. A 15 minute task turned into a three hour headache.
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the problem is that Nvidia only provides the closed drivers. The open driver need to be reversed engineered and Nvidia has no intention to make it easy for driver developer, as opposed to AMD that openly helps open driver development.
The problem with the open Nvidia drivers is that its choses a random port as an output of the GPUs in the system. And that might not the port you have you monitor plugged in. When I get the same problem I just try to switch to different GPU port until i get the one working. When you install the proprietary drivers the problem is solved