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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #640807
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 640807

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote : Re: Forces low refresh rate on CRT monitor

I forgot, you also need to disable this option for the user ('sudo -u gdm' will only deal with the gdm login screen):

gconftool-2 --type bool -s "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/xrandr/turn_on_external_monitors_at_startup" false

I guess the easiest way to find out if you are affected by this bug is, to install the x11-xserver-utils package and run 'xrandr -q' - normally this should list a proper mode - it doesn't in my case. You can also run 'sudo get-edid' from the read-edid package - if it fails, you'll likely hit this bug.