Bug 490082 - X uses wrong resolution when started with monitor off

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>>   On Friday 13 March 2009 15:09:56 Rex Dieter wrote:
>>  > Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>  > > First of all, is the fedora-desktop still only about Gnome? I seem to
>>  > > remember it used to be.
>>  > >
>>  > > Anyways, I've finally filed this bug after enduring it for several
>>  > > releases now. I'm positing here in case anyone else has been having
>>  > > this problem and just been waiting for some else to file it.
>>  > >
>>  > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490082
>>  >
>>  > Not that it's relevant to kde... but...
>>  >
>>  > Umm... How is Plug-n-play supposed to work (and detect your device
>>  > resolution) if it's *turned off*?
>>  >
>>
>>
>> It should assume, that what one had 2 minutes ago is the same thing one
>> has now.
>
> X currently doesn't remember or save what happened the last time it was
> started.

That's kind of the problem. It used to and I was happy.

> In this case, one can create/use an xorg.conf that includes
> the correct display configuration.

Its a bug if every one with a monitor capable of being switched off
has to create their only xorg.conf.

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