Initial RandR set-up

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:16:44 -0500
> 
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:40 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > In these days of xrandr, is there a good, standard way to do the initial
> > set-up of the display? I currently have a script to do "xrandr --output
> > VGA2 --right-of VGA1" and, in one case, set the resolution of the second
> > display. I'd like to know the best way to kick this off as early as
> > possible in the startup of X.
> 
> Currently, this is probably the best way to deal with it.
> 
> If you use gnome, 2.24's display manager tool will handle it, though it
> still has some issues.  The intel 965 laptop that I was using needed to
> disable LVDS before it could enable both external displays and that
> didn't seem to work quite right.  It tried to do the right thing, but I
> still had to mess with the display settings a bit to use the second
> external display.  I didn't get around to looking at the code to fix it
> though.

Robert,

Thanks! I was totally unaware of the display manager tool. I just
played with it for a bit and it seems to work quite well. I'll play some
more to make sure that it really does what I need when I get a bit more
time. (I have an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX. Not my choice, but I as not
asked.) 
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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