Re: How to specifiy/modify GDM login xrandr settings

2010-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:02:12 -0400 Charles Butterfield wrote: > In the meantime, I'm still interested in the approved manner of tweaking > XRandR setting while the GDM login screen is being displayed. Completely wild guess here, but gdm is running as the user "gdm". Perhaps a script in the /etc/X1

RE: How to specifiy/modify GDM login xrandr settings

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Butterfield
Okay - I just buzzed out the cable. It is wired properly (i.e. DMS59:VGA2_RED -> VGA#2:RED, etc). So my money is on the nouveau driver being confused. I'm going to post that issue on the devel list. In the meantime, I'm still interested in the approved manner of tweaking XRandR setting while th

RE: How to specifiy/modify GDM login xrandr settings

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Butterfield
Here is some more information that suggests that the nouveau driver is probably swapping/mis-labelling the two video streams that the card produces. The NVS-290 video card has a DMS-59 connector. That is attached to a short DMS-59 to Dual VGA cable. The VGA connectors are labeled 1 and 2. At boo

How to specifiy/modify GDM login xrandr settings

2010-06-09 Thread Charles Butterfield
I would like to modify the default xrandr settings to swap my two monitors when GDM displays the login screen. Do I need to edit some script in the /etc/gdm/Init/... (or PreSession...) trees, or is there a cleaner way to drop in a small property setting somewhere? I'm running Fedora-13, with an N