On 09/23/14 19:21, Jake Shipton wrote: > On 22/09/14 22:37, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> I have one user. We've pretty much all got two monitors, but he >>> insists on rotating both of them vertically - that is, they're >>> taller than they are wide, and he's got a Radeon card. I always >>> have X grief on his system when I update it.... >>> >>> I just did a full update. X comes up in both screens... but the >>> left one is *not* rotated, while the right one is. And they're >>> mirrored. I've logged in as root, looked at all the configuration <snip> > Is this C6 or C7? > > If it's C7 I had the same issue with ignoring nvidia configuration, > turns out it wasn't Xorg at all. > > It was GDM resetting everything when it loaded, switched to LightDM > problem solved as it was using Xorg configuration again! > > Worth a shot if it's C7 :-). C6, and yep, that's probably what's happening anyway. I went to apologize yesterday morning for having left it that way, and he was fine: *after* he logged in, everything was the correct direction. I need to lok at the damn GDM (another reason to dislike gnome). mark