On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Guy Dalziel<krendosha...@dementedfury.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:24:18AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I don't see how this can be detected automatically. In my case I have two >> monitors. How can it detect what the orientation is? Which screen is on the >> left (or top)? I also use nvidia drivers, not nv. How would it detect what >> resolution I want for the default? There would have to be some kind of >> configuration file for the system to use upon startup. > > When you put it like that it does seem questionable, but as I don't use > it I can't really say much about it. I believe that HAL uses FDI policies > in order to allow you to configure your hardware.
The fdi configuration is for the input devices only. When there's no xorg.conf and multiple monitors, the server and driver use heuristics to decide what the most useful output configuration is. Usually, I think it attempts to clone the display across all active monitors with the largest common mode. The nvidia drivers have their own system (I think) which may not work exactly the same. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
