Issues with 2nd display being treated as primary (when not plugged in)

[Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology]

Hello,

I have an all-in-one box with a builtin monitor (LVDS1) and 2nd hotpluggable
monitor (VGA1).

My problem in a few words: if I don't have a 2nd screen plugged in at boot,
I can't see a thing once X loads. If I have a 2nd screen plugged in at boot,
everything works more-or-less ok.

More detail: If I have VGA1 unplugged at boot, X detects it (VGA1) as
primary for some reason, and shows a blank screen on LVDS1 (but during BIOS
load, grub, and plymouth splash, the picture shows on LVDS1 as expected. I'd
expect X to do the same, but it doesn't). When I plug in VGA1, the picture
shows up fine on there, but no pic on LVDS1 until I load up Monitor
Preferences or use xrandr. If VGA1 is plugged in during boot, then both
screens operate as expected.

My xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/NB06Dk47
My lspci: http://pastebin.com/n6bPhupW
My xorg.log: http://pastebin.com/pyx5y2g0

Can anyone help me delve further into the problem? Perhaps even help fix it?
;-)

I'd be very keen to chat with someone in person (Skype or something), if
that's appropriate -- but I'm more than happy to discuss via this list if
that's better.

Not wanting to be mercenary about it, but it's worth a small amount of money
to certain people to have this solved, so if there's not an obvious fix,
I could probably arrange some $$ compensation for time if an expert wants to
do some one-on-one consulting. I'd contribute any useful information back to
the list.

Kind regards,
Bryan

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