dual head, output initialization

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, joaoBR wrote:

> I hope somebody know something about this
>
> I have a dual-head setup (2 connector/one card) on all computers here,
> different types of radeon cards
>
> all cards, often, do not initialize the second output
>
> this either with vga/dvi or dvi0/dvi1
>
> often, the second port gets activated with x startup, but sometimes
> needs several reboot before the second monitor get juice
>
> it is on 8 and 9-stable
>
> I noticed that on some fedora16 I have it never happens, always both
> outputs are coming up soon system boot begins, either with graphic or
> text mode
>
> so my guess is I am missing somewhere something I do not know or it is a
> FreeBSD problem
>
> any opinion on this?

Does the xorg.conf specifically tie monitors to outputs in the Device 
section?

   Option      "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor0"
   Option      "Monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor1"