[SOLVED] Powering on before TV

[Baz8755]

(25th Oct, 2013 06:07 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  yes there is but this is the worst way to do it and I would not recommend to anyone as was discussed many times. Turning RPi ON/OFF without proper shutdown of the system and also turning it ON where no all devices are connected or ON is leads into the problem as the system is sett to autodetect all settings and turn the right things ON and set the right resolution, etc,etc...
So your way of doing it may lead to the HW malfunction or at least into the SW SD Card corruption.
Is there any way you leave your RPi simply on all the time? It will cost you nothing to have it running as it uses max 3W of electric which is less than your TV in standby mode.
Or at least to use different power source for it so you turn on your AVR/TV before you do your RPi

Not quite the answer that was required but I found what I needed here

http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt#Video

And yes you are probably right about the powering down issue (I have now changed to powering from Tivo meaning it is permanently on).