xrandr settings in xorg.conf file - how?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 08:10:41 PST 2009


2009/11/5 Łukasz Maśko <ed at yen.ipipan.waw.pl>:
> First: the "Enable" option doesn't work for me.
> I have a Dell D430 with Intel graphics and I'm trying to turn off the DVI1
> output by default, but not to ignore it at all. Therefore I've added such
> section in my xorg.conf file:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier      "DVI1"
>        VendorName      "External monitor"
>        DisplaySize     260 162
>        Option          "DPMS"          "yes"
>        Option          "Enable"        "false"
>        Option          "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
>        Option          "Position"      "0 0"
> EndSection
>
> In the Xorg log file I'm getting this (I've removes some lines which seem to
> be not necessary here):
>
> (II) intel(0): Output DVI1 using monitor section DVI1
> (**) intel(0): Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
> (**) intel(0): Option "Position" "0 0"
> (**) intel(0): Option "Enable" "false"
> (II) intel(0): Output DVI1 connected
> (II) intel(0): Output DVI1 using initial mode 1024x768
>
> So, the driver recognizez the Enable option, but it still enables the output
> and uses it. But that's not what I want. I don't want to use the "Ignore"
> option, for this disables this output at all.

You want:
Option "Disable" "TRUE"
Yes, it's stupid.

Alex



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