Linux Mint 18 How to Persist Display Settings

[dcriken]

I just upgraded from 17.2...well actually it's just a fresh install. I can get my displays (2 of them) setup just fine (with a little drama trying the resolution that works). The problem I have is the settings do not persist after reboot. I did not have this problem in 17.2. How can I get the display settings to persist? This is just an AMD/Radeon onboard graphics (nothing special). My main monitor is VGA and the second connection is HDMI to my TV.

Here are some screenshots. I just need persist this so that when I reboot they are restored. Otherwise I have to go through the drama of configuring the displays again.

[dcriken]

I forgot to mention that I have the proprietary driver selected and active in the Driver Manager but it does not look that is for display driver. So do I really need a proprietary display driver? It works just not persistent. See screenshot.

[dcriken]

Its seems during OS installation at some point it already installed package xserver-xorg-video-ati. I know I didn't install this. So I guess it has the necessary driver. How can I persist the settings for this?

[Werscannt]

You need to creat a xorg.conf for your system.
Read this thread an and see if this works for you:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=226242&p=1194635&s ... f#p1194635

[JayBird707]

Take a look at this thread. If you can get it to work it's just a single line entry in an existing file.

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=224997

[dcriken]

Cool. I will check this out. Thanks!

[dcriken]

You need to creat a xorg.conf for your system.
Read this thread an and see if this works for you:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=226242&p=1194635&s ... f#p1194635

It's not clear here on what I need to do for my situation though. I see that I do not have an xorg.conf under X11. I also see my settings under /home/your-user-name/.config/monitors.xml as described in the post above.

[Werscannt]

I didn't had a xorg.conf, so I had to create one. After that I put in the code provided by roblm

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Section "ServerLayout"         
   Identifier   "Layout0"      
   Screen   0 "Screen0" 0 0 
EndSection

Section "Monitor"      
   Identifier    "Monitor0"
   Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"      
   Identifier    "Monitor1"
   Option "RightOf" "Monitor0"
   Option "Primary" "true"
   HorizSync       24.0 - 94.0    
   VertRefresh     24.0 - 85.0    
   DisplaySize  470 300
   Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
   Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier   "Device0"
   Driver   "intel"      
   Option "Monitor-LVDS1" "Monitor0"
   Option "Monitor-VGA1" "Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"                                     
   Identifier   "Screen0"      
   Device    "Device0"          
   Monitor   "Monitor0"      
   DefaultDepth   24
EndSection