<p dir="ltr">Start the box in run level 3. Run X -configure as root. It will generate an xorg.conf file. Put that file in /etc/X11 and run startx. Edit that file if needed.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 24, 2016 5:45 AM, "Jim Lynch" <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Back in the bad old days, I could eventually put a xorg.conf file together that would make my monitor play. Xorg.conf appears to be gone. I have a situation where a box running 16.04 is connected to a monitor and a projector via a splitter. Even when turned off, the projector somehow becomes the primary monitor. Since the projector has better resolution the system at boot sets the resolution to a geometry that the monitor can't display. Now the system looks like it's hung. We can disconnect the monitor cable temporarily to boot, but we'll eventually destroy the connectors that way.<br>
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I can't spend any money on the solution so the next best thing is to tell the computer to used a fixed resolution that the monitor can display. The projector is happy with that setting too.<br>
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I can't seem to come up with the answer by searching, so I'd like some help. Xrandr might be the solution but I haven't figured out how to get it to effect the display before login.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Jim.<br>
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