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

[Philipp Hagemeister]

With a modern X, you should be able to leave the xorg.conf basically
empty. Is there a reason why you populated it?

Additionally, while I'm certainly no X expert, the
Option "Enable" "true"
lines seem suspect. Why do you need to turn on a monitor that's not
connected? Also note that for LVDS1, the "Primary" option is ignored
(line 432) and "Enable" is superfluous anyway. You can configure
multi-monitor stuff with xrandr nowadays.

Feel free to drop me your Skype, Jabber, or icq ID if you need
additional clarification (Disclaimer: I'm not an X developer, just a
user and administrator). This mailing list is fine too though.

Regards,

Philipp

Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology wrote:
> 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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