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turtlefox

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Registered: 2015-05-12

Posts: 5

GDM Multihead issue

Hi guys
i really hope you can help me out.
I have Archlinux installed on my Asus ultrabook und I am using GNOME Display Manager. When I plug in a second monitor via HDMI, it works fine as long as Arch is already running when I plug it in and as long as I don't close the lid of my laptop. However, when I close the lid, the system crashes .And when I plug in the external monitor BEFORE I start Arch, it gets stuck during the boot process. What can I do to fix this?
I tried it with a .conf-file in xorg.conf.d as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mu … _xorg.conf, but that was a bad idea ^^ so I deleted this .conf-file again.

(Sry if similar threads already occured. I tried to go through related questions, but so far it did not really help.)

Additional info on my issue:
i have an intel video card
Drivers (xf86-video-intel, libva-intel-driver and libva) are installed

turtlefox

Member

Registered: 2015-05-12

Posts: 5

Re: GDM Multihead issue

This is the content of ~/.config/monitors.xml:

<monitors version="1">
  <configuration>
    <clone>no</clone>
    <output name="VGA1">
      <vendor>unknown</vendor>
      <product>unknown</product>
      <serial>unknown</serial>
      <width>1024</width>
      <height>768</height>
      <rate>60.003841400146484</rate>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <rotation>normal</rotation>
      <reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
      <reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
      <primary>no</primary>
      <presentation>no</presentation>
    </output>
    <output name="eDP1">
      <vendor>COR</vendor>
      <product>0x17db</product>
      <serial>0x00000000</serial>
      <width>1024</width>
      <height>768</height>
      <rate>60.003841400146484</rate>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>0</y>
      <rotation>normal</rotation>
      <reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
      <reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
      <primary>yes</primary>
      <presentation>no</presentation>
    </output>
  </configuration>
</monitors>

the XRandR plugin of GNOME will use the settings of this file. "eDP1" is my primary display but te secondary display is connected via HDMI, not VGA. So, the configuration in moitors.xml do not seem to be correct....
Also, with dconf Editor, I could see that the XRandR plugin can use the key  /etc/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr/monitors.xml as well, but I can not see such in a file in nautilus..