On 05/25/2012 12:06 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
I am a bit confused about your actual aim: Do you want both screens in clone mode all the time, or in clone mode during boot and span mode within Gnome?
Thanks for the reply. :-)My goal is at least one monitor displaying during POST, GRUB, boot, and login, and then span mode 2 x 1600x1200 on the desktop. The Nokia 445Xi can do 75 Hz and the 445XiPlus can do 87 Hz at that resolution, but I would settle for 75 Hz on both monitors.
Frankly, I wouldn’t care about grub or early boot and then use xrandr, which appears to work fine, within Gnome on startup (don’t ask me how, I don’t use Gnome) to set the screens to the preferred layout. If your preferred mode of operation is not available here, you can try to add it using xrandr --newmode before then switching to it. The manual page on xrandr is quite good, I think. I don’t think you need the xorg.conf file.
STFW I've posts about xrandr, but I'd prefer to get this working via CMOS settings, motherboard/ monitor connections, xorg.conf, and gnome-display-properties. I'll play with xrandr in any case.
Any other suggestions? David