laptop external monitor

[Paul Cartwright]

On 10/27/2015 11:44 AM, CS DBA wrote:
>
>
> On 10/27/2015 06:20 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> I am running f22 on a Dell laptop. I have a 23" monitor plugged in 
>> and I always use just the external monitor. Everytime I boot it 
>> reverts to 1024 X 680 and I have to go to the dispay settings, 
>> uncheck the box for both screens the same, turn off the laptop screen 
>> & set the external monitor to 1920 X 1080.
>> there is no xorg.conf file. Here is the xrandr outout:
>>
>> $ xrandr
>> Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
>> LVDS1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>    1280x800      59.91 +
>>    1024x768      60.00
>>    800x600       60.32    56.25
>>    640x480       59.94
>>    640x400       60.00
>> TV1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>> VGA1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x 
>> axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm
>>    1920x1080     60.00*+
>>    1280x1024     75.02    60.02
>>    1152x864      75.00
>>    1024x768      75.08    60.00
>>    800x600       75.00    60.32
>>    640x480       75.00    60.00
>>    720x400       70.08
>> VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>>
>> how do I get this to boot into this mode everytime??
>
>
> My previous laptop had a similar issue with Fedora 21, I solved it 
> like this... I created a script named 99-xrandr.sh, placed it 
> in/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d and made it executable by all (owned by 
> root), the script looked like this:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /bin/xrandr --newmode "1600x900_60.00"  118.25  1600 1696 1856 2112 
> 900 903 908 934 -hsync +vsync
> /bin/xrandr --addmode eDP1 1600x900_60.00
> /bin/xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1600x900_60.00
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
>
> You would want to set it up to force VGA1 to be 1920x1080 like so:
>
> -- run cvt to get the needed string
> # cvt 1920 1080
> Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 
> 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
>
> Then create your script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /bin/xrandr --newmode  "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  
> 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
> /bin/xrandr --addmode VGA1 1920x1080_60.00
> /bin/xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1600x900_60.00
>
>
>
> Not sure if this will work since your external monitor may not be 
> connected at boot time, but worth a shot
>
>
didn't work.. when I rebooted & logged in, xrandr said this:
$xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1024 x 768, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 
304mm x 190mm
    1280x800      59.91 +
    1024x768      60.00*
    800x600       60.32    56.25
    640x480       59.94
    640x400       60.00
TV1 unknown connection (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
    848x480       59.94 +
    640x480       59.94 +
    1024x768      59.94
    800x600       59.94
VGA1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y 
axis) 510mm x 287mm
    1920x1080     60.00 +
    1280x1024     75.02    60.02
    1152x864      75.00
    1024x768      75.08*   60.00
    800x600       75.00    60.32
    640x480       75.00    60.00
    720x400       70.08
    1920x1080_60.00  59.96
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)