On 9/18/07, Adam Jackson ajackson@redhat.com wrote:
If the monitor is off, I can't talk to it, so I can't ask it what it can do. Note that this is something of a lie, most monitors made since, oh, 2000, will merely look like they're asleep but will still respond over DDC if they have a power cord plugged in.
But if I can't talk to it, I'll use what's in the config file. Do you have an example of X not doing so?
Yes... the most frustrating part of all. As I've been trying to communicate, xorg does _not_ use my xorg.conf when the monitor is off, and instead uses something on the scale of 800x600 which is so large, the necessary widgets are off screen.