Can't force external monitor for warning
sean darcy
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 14:31:44 PST 2011
I've got Fedora 14, xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.9.4, on an old laptop with a
bad screen. I've attached a monitor to the vga port. When I boot up, all
the bios messages, and the console messages (that is, run level 3)
appear on the external monitor.
But when I start X, the external monitor goes blank. After a lot of
messing around, I realized that the "You are logging onto X as root, you
fool" dialog box was coming up on the laptop screen. With a lucky
combination of tab, space, enter, I cleared the dialog box, and X came
up on the external monitor.
Obviously, at least to me, any dialog box should come up on the correct
screen, but is this an X problem? A Fedora problem - did Fedora insert
this dialog box ? Or the intel driver?
Thanks,
sean
Here's my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "External Monitor"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
FontPath "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "dri"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "965GM"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "monitor-VGA" "VGA1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGA1"
Option "Primary" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "965GM"
Monitor "VGA1"
EndSection
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