Re: locking down Xorg resolution

2008-09-10 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht

"Gilboa Davara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Arthur Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Since F7, I have been unable to simply do a graphical boot with my
>> monitor off. Whenever the monitor is off, xorg ignores
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and chooses its own incorrect resolution.
>>
>> How do I lock this down so that I do not need to turn on my monitor
>> before every boot? The solution on such a "bad" boot is generally to
>> restart X using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>>
>
> Which driver are you using?
> In general you can disable EDID check by adding 'Option "IgnoreEDID"
> "yes"' to your driver section.

I don't think he wants to ignore EDID, but simply have a more
reasonable fall-back when EDID isn't available (such as when the
monitor is powered off).

I'm not sure how to do a fallback either, but in the past I've solved
this problem by running X once, determining the mode X would chose
when the monitor is on and then add the appropriate settings to the
Display and/or Screen xorg.conf sections.  In the past I've patched up
the following (see man xorg.conf for the gory details):

 HorizSync
 VertRefresh
 DisplaySize
 Mode / Modeline

-wolfgang
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Re: locking down Xorg resolution

2008-09-10 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Arthur Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since F7, I have been unable to simply do a graphical boot with my
> monitor off. Whenever the monitor is off, xorg ignores
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and chooses its own incorrect resolution.
>
> How do I lock this down so that I do not need to turn on my monitor
> before every boot? The solution on such a "bad" boot is generally to
> restart X using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>

Which driver are you using?
In general you can disable EDID check by adding 'Option "IgnoreEDID"
"yes"' to your driver section.

- Gilboa

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locking down Xorg resolution

2008-09-09 Thread Arthur Pemberton
Since F7, I have been unable to simply do a graphical boot with my
monitor off. Whenever the monitor is off, xorg ignores
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, and chooses its own incorrect resolution.

How do I lock this down so that I do not need to turn on my monitor
before every boot? The solution on such a "bad" boot is generally to
restart X using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

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