FC6 dual-head malfunctioning (probing wrong monitor)

[Tim]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:03 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
>    My set up which worked under FC5 is now causing problems under FC6;  I 
> have a CRT capable of 1600x1200, and to its right an LCD of 1280x1024.
> 
>    When I start X now, according to the debug, it's probing and seeing the 
> LCD (a Dell) as the main* monitor, not the CRT, and thus forcing the CRT to 
> an odd res. limited to the capabilities of the LCD.
> 
>    I've tried adding 'Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"' to both Monitor configs., 
> but it doesn't help (X reports 'not using IgnoreEDID'!).

Try this, comment out the DPMS line in the xorg.conf file.  I know it's
a stupid interelation (power management versus screen mode detection),
but I followed someone else's hint about that, and FC6 stopped resetting
the screen resolution too low on a friend's PC on every X restart or
system reboot.

You might want to post the whole config file that you tried.  Do those
options belong with the monitor or video card section?  I would have
thought that if you wanted a particular video card not to do some
probing, you'd configure it.

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