screeen resolution change does not "stick" after x restart

[Da-brickbat]

Hi,
Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 instead of the highest resolution (I
think 1260x800) does not "stick" after a restart of x - it keeps reverting back
to the maximum. This could be related to another bug i have posted about my
dell p990 display being mis-recognised but I wasn't sure. The only way to get
the resolution i wanted was to reconfigure X (i forgot the command) and to
uncheck the top resolution but now if I need it for something, it is unavailable.

ciao
bb

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

How are you setting the resolution?

[Da-brickbat (da-brickbat)]

hi,

I was setting resolution through System / Preferences / Screen resultion. I
think I also tried setting it default by editing the

change those values in /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

What i did to finally get it sort of working was to type

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and then to uncheck the highest resolution. Then when i restarted X it would
start at 1024x768 but now the top resolution is not available.

Regarding the ultrascanp99 / dell p990 thing, i have used red hat, mandrake, and
suse and they all recognised it as a Dell P990. If it recognises it properly,
that eliminates the chance that other config problems are caused by this.

For more information about what I tried, you can see here;

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25221

ciao
bb

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

The sticking thing looks like a gnome randr applet problem; have fun, Seb.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what is the output of "gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/screen"?

[Da-brickbat (da-brickbat)]

Here is the output

brickbat@lpc1:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/screen
 /desktop/gnome/screen/lpc1:
  /desktop/gnome/screen/lpc1/0:
   rate = 100
   resolution = 1024x768

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have any idea of "lpc1" come from your configuration?

[Da-brickbat (da-brickbat)]

It stands for linux pc 1. It is my computer name. Did I do something bad?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> It stands for linux pc 1. It is my computer name. Did I do something bad?

thanks. No, I'm just trying to figure where is the bug. Usually the keyname is
"default" and not the name of the computer.

Can you try to run "gconftool-2 -t int -s /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/rate
100; gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution
"1024x768""? Does it fix the issue?

[Da-brickbat (da-brickbat)]

ok. Here is what I did. To get it to a state where I could test your commands I
did the following;

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

At the right time, I did not deselect 1280x1024 as I had previously done as a
quick fix to get my display to stay in 1024x768.

I rebooted and it reset to 1280x1024

I ran your commands and rebooted

It went to 1024x768

With these commands i can get it to do what I want but setting it with the gui
still does not keep the setting after reboot

[Da-brickbat (da-brickbat)]

In my excitement to tell you what I did, I forgot to say thanks for finding a
way to get it to work.

Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

same issue as bug #13839

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13839.