Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 16:20:52 -0800,
Paul Allen Newell <pnewell(a)cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I tried out a couple of combinations and know that
> 1) the xrandr command does work
> 2) switching video to DVI-I-0 shows the same "kvm lack-of-focus" problem
> which xrandr fixed
> 3) after scanning web and etc/rc.d files, it seemed to me that I should
> have been able to put this xrandr command in rc.local and have it occur
> when the boot is finished --- did not work (but, since I have to have
> the kvm pointed elsewhere to test, not certain if my test is valid)
>
In init you are not attached to a screen, so you will likely need to add
some options to xrandr to specifiy one.
Bruno:
Thanks for info ... I am now pretty certain that "init" is not the right
place to try to kick the display.
Paul