Bug#499209: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: incorrect resolution choice for second monitor

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw@panix.com>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
> I might be the Xserver core choosing the same resolution at startup (so
> that the login screen appears in the middle of both monitors instead of
> risking of having it outside one of them).
>
> You should be able to work around the problem with PreferredMode. See
> III.5 of http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

Setting a PreferredMode option for *both* monitors does work around
the problem.  If I give the option for just the larger monitor, then
it tries to drive both of them at 1920x1200, which looks really
bizarre on the 1600x1200 screen.  I didn't need modelines.

Thanks,
zw