I don't suppose there is a way to set the default value for this property with a kernel boot option is there? I keep thinking my monitor is broken or my eyes have gone bad while watching the boot messages scroll past :-). (Anyone feel like adding such a kernel option?) If I can't get it set that early, does anyone have a working example of the sort of xorg.conf fragment I can stick in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to set it as soon as X comes up on my system? (The docs for xorg.conf seem to have been designed to cause brains to explode when trying to understand them). I am able to set it with xrandr but it makes my monitor flicker when it changes (I thought avoiding that sort of thing was why kernel mode setting was invented :-).