On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:47:26PM -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> I have a system that apparently has DVI support built into the
> onboard video chipset (ATI ES1000), but there is no physical DVI
> port on the machine.  Problem is, the system then can't give the VGA
> port a higher resolution until I disable DVI-0 with xrandr after it
> loads the GUI. Would like a way to switch this port off as early as
> possible so X will see the correct HW configuration and I don't have
> to fiddle with it. There isn't anything in the BIOS to configure it,
> just a screen that tells me what the built-in video is (with the
> wrong ammt of video memory while it's at it).

This is the opposite but the same trick should work:

http://old.nabble.com/How-to-disable-internal-LCD-in-a-static-configuration-on-a-DELL-Latitude-601-td28724336.html

So in your case, perhaps:

Section "Monitor" 
    Identifier      "HDMI1" 
    Option          "Disable"        "yes" 
EndSection 

Or whatever your DVI port is called (xrandr will tell you)

-m

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