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

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Eli Wapniarski
<eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Friday 13 March 2009 19:23:48 Rex Dieter 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. In this case, one can create/use an xorg.conf that includes
>> the correct display configuration.
>>
>
> I already have a configured xorg.conf with both monitors configured.
> However, if I reboot with the kvm switched over to my server, X Windows only
> triggers on the the monitor connected directly to the computer and I only
> have half my display.


Having to create an Xorg config per install per machine with a monitor
is no solution.

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