How can I set which monitor the console will appear on?

From: Jason (jason_at_john.doe)
Date: 08/20/03 

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:17:00 +0000

I'm running Gentoo and have an Nvidia Geforce4 TI4400 video card. I have
X configured to use my LCD monitor (using the DVI connector on the card)
as the main monitor and my TV (using the SVIDEO connector) as the
second monitor. I'm not using TwinView; each monitor has an independent
instance of Gnome running on it.

My problem is that once the X server has been started, invoking a virtual
console (ctrl+alt+f1, f2, etc) causes the console to appear on the TV and
the LCD to go blank. I want the console to appear on the LCD and the TV
to go blank. The console appears on the LCD during startup, and during
shutdown after the X server has been killed.

In order to get the primary X display to appear on the LCD instead of the
TV, I had to use:

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "dfp"

and

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "tv"

These went in the two device sections for the connectors; without them,
everything kept defaulting back to the TV.

Is there any way I can tell the console services to focus on a specific
monitor, or to tell X to treat the LCD as the primary monitor instead of
the TV?

Thanks,
Jason

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