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Old 05-22-2011, 10:20 PM   #1
bahbahthelamb
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Little help with getting a Radeon xorg.conf.d/*.conf stuff


I have used nVidia my entire linux life (about 5 years clean and sober from M$). Recently, I have switched over to an ATI Radeon HD 5550 card. After many trial and error setups, I finally got the resolutions and screens set properly with a xrandr command, which I have now added to a shell script in ~/.kde4/Autostart. It has worked for me for a while now, but I really would like to get it set in the xorg.conf.d files so that I don't have to wait that extra few seconds after login for the screens to fix themselves.

Essentially, I have two questions:

Is there an easy way to take what xrandr does and export it to the xorg.conf.d files?

If my video card recognizes my default monitor as DFP2 and the tv that I only sometimes use with this computer as DFP1, how can I ensure that the login screen for openSUSE/KDE4 appears on my default screen (an issue that drove me nuts a few months ago when I tried Ubuntu to see what all the fuss was about)?

Extra information:

My xrandr command that I use to fix it all is:
xrandr --output DFP2 --auto --pos 0x0 --primary --output DFP1 --auto --right-of
I am using the proprietary Radeon driver from the ioda repository. DFP2 is a monitor which has a optimum resolution of 1920x1200, and DFP1 is an 1080p HDTV. I can not reverse the output plugs for the screens even though my monitor is an HDMI monitor because I use the actual HDMI port on the video card to output audio to the television and the other plug is a DVI that I convert to HDMI for the monitor.
 
Old 06-17-2011, 01:04 AM   #2
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Hello,

I have an ATI Radeon HD4200 and encountered similar problems until I installed the fglrx packages which also installed the ATI Catalyst Control Center. Using that utility I configured everything and a correct configuration file was generated. Try and see if it works for you too.

Kind regards,

Eric
 
  


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