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

[Rex Dieter]

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.

-- Rex