I’ve been wanting to make this work for a long time, but the two times I tried to configure it I gave up because I just didn’t know what else to do. This time I sat down and didn’t get up until it worked. I worked on the xorg.conf several times before, so I know my way around it. It was still quite a puzzle for me to get working. If you want to know how to configure a display without EDID on Linux, click here. First I tried using the X way. Multiple Monitors with a Screen each, using one Device, put together in a ServerLayout.

I already got a lot of the necessary information from a post by Pat Regan that you should definitely read before starting to play around with your settings! At first I tried to configure my new QX2710 with my old monitor connected, but I figured I might aswell just do it remotely. So I connected to my computer from my laptop via SSH and played around with the xorg.conf. After applying the changes I’d restart lightdm (sudo service lightdm restart) until it worked. In the meantime my monitor showed me this: I ended up using HorizSync 89.52 - 160.0, VertRefresh 59.

I know of no clean way to detect an unplugged screen, so I figured I’d force re-detection with a cron job. To detect the monitors I’m using disper, you can get it from the Wheezy and Sid repositories. Let’s open up our crontab. crontab -e If you’re doing this for other users too, you may use sudo crontab -eu username Now add a new entry: 0-59 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 disper -ld auto > /dev/null This will automatically detect (-d auto) and list (-l) all monitors every minute. Of course, you can also use xrandr: 0-59 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.

I recently built myself a neat little home server. I wanted it to be small compared to a desktop PC, while having a lot of storage space and a reasonable speed to manage smaller tasks. Here’s what I bought: Components Case: Fractal Design Array R2 300W ITX Mainboard: Asrock E350M1/USB3 APU: AMD E-350 (2 × 1.6 GHz) [Wikipedia] RAM: 2 × GeIL 4GB DDR3-1066 Hard Drives: 4 × WD20EARX (Western Digital, 2 TB) Installing Debian I’m installing Wheezy from a FAT-formatted USB stick, which I created with unetbootin and the B4 Wheezy Amd64 netinst image. When I tried installing it from an Ext4-USB stick, it wouldn’t mount correctly.