locking down Xorg resolution

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since F7, I have been unable to simply do a graphical boot with my
> monitor off. Whenever the monitor is off, xorg ignores
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and chooses its own incorrect resolution.
>
> How do I lock this down so that I do not need to turn on my monitor
> before every boot? The solution on such a "bad" boot is generally to
> restart X using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
>

Which driver are you using?
In general you can disable EDID check by adding 'Option "IgnoreEDID"
"yes"' to your driver section.

- Gilboa