[Intel-gfx] Dual screen: Define primary monitor?

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Oct 6 17:08:47 CEST 2009


On Tue, Oct  6, 2009 at 16:30:56 +0200, Lars Behrens wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a dual monitor setup on an HP Compaq dc7900 CMT, kernel is
> SUSE's 2.6.27.29(-0.1-default).
> 
> For some reason, the primary screen always defaults to the VGA output of the 
> graphics adapter, no matter how I plug the cords. Is there a way to tell 
> xrandr or xorg.conf to make the HDMI output the primary one?
> 
With xserver >= 1.6, "xrandr --output HDMI-2 --primary".
With xserver >= 1.7, you can add 'Option "Primary"' to xorg.conf's
Monitor section.

Cheers,
Julien



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