Laptop: Aspire 7520 (Nvidia Geforce 7000m using non free driver package) .... Slitaz 4.0.
External monitor: HDTV 1920x1080 ... connected by VGA cable as the laptop has no HDMI.
The connected external TV screen works while booting but switches to the laptop internal screen as the desktop appears.
The external screen can be set up easily to full 1920x1080 using
# nvidia-settings
and works perfectly, the settings are saved correctly to /etc/x11/xorg.conf and are persistent after reboot.
The problem is that the settings seem to be getting ignored on reboot and the laptop reverts back to the internal screen every time no matter what fix I try to get the saved settings recognized and I've been at it for 3 days now ... :(
The Nvidia driver refers to VGA as CRT-0 and LVDS as DFP-0.
There maybe a clue in the fact that
# xrandr -q
Only ever seems to see one screen always referred to as "default" which varies in size depending on the orientation of screens (1920x1080 if only the external is active, 1440x900 if only internal and 3360x1080 if both are active in Twinview).
The xorg.0.log sees both screens but always chooses the internal 1440x900 internal screen as the desktop opens.
It's so annoying being able to set up what I want and save the settings just for them to be ignored on reboot.
I am using a Live USB install with persistence and
# tazusb writefs gzip
To save the xorg.conf settings permanently.
Any help with this will be very well appreciated ... I've tried literally every fix on the net I could find over the last three days ... and it always reverts back to the laptop internal screen ... :(