[Hardy] Ubuntu does not remember the screen resolution

[Peter Makowski]

Ubuntu does not remember my screen resolution and is always returning it to 1600x1200 after restarting X. My graphic card is nvidia tnt2 m64 with nvidia-glx-legacy drivers.

[Don Rist (drist)]

Same problem occurs if you log off and log back on. Resolution always returns to highest setting.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

You probably have used the gnome resolution setting tool (system - preferences - screen resolution?). Check that, and set the resolution there and you should be fine.

[Peter Makowski (petermakowski)]

Yes. I set the resolution in gnome-display-properties and the bug still occurs...

[Jared Moore (cornflake-pirate)]

Same problem. Using nvidia 8600GT. Settings are not remembered using either Preferences->Screen Resolution or Administration->Screens and Graphics. My monitor's native resolution is 1680x1050, it keeps defaulting to 1400x1050.

[Peter Makowski (petermakowski)]

The same here with ATI Radeon 9250 card.

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

adn i have same problem with GeForce 2 Ti 64 MB

[Pentti Mannonen (pentti-mannonen)]

The same here with ATI Radeon 9200 PRO card and Nokia 446Xpro monitor. The display is even set perhaps to Liquid crystal mode when booting. The cursor disappears too. When corrected (difficult to resolve) by the menu: Screens and graphics, it forgets it in the next boot.

[Pentti Mannonen (pentti-mannonen)]

This was corrected when i additionally set the: System->Preferences->Screen resolution to the same value. Still the log on screen remained the wrong type and my Mathematica program showed fonts as holes in paper and i had to use black background to see them.

[Peter Clifton (pcjc2)]

Please open a new bug for the "font holes" problem.

FWIW, I've seen this too with the freeware version of Eagle CAD (propriatory binary software, linked against its own copy of QT). This is available through apt-get on gutsy. I'm guessing the bugs are similar, so please subscribe me to the new bug you open.

[Martijn Bastiaan (hmb1)]

Problem also occurs on a RADEON 9550.

[Chris McCauley (chris-avondalepark)]

I'd be willing to bet that if you check your xorg.conf files the refresh rate on the modelines is too high. For example my settings used to be:

 modeline "1920x1200@60"

Editing the xorg.conf so that the only modeline available is:

 modeline "1920x1200@57"

make this problem disappear. Hopefully it will work for you guys too.

Chris

[Nathan Howell (neh)]

I had this problem when I upgraded to a new monitor a few days ago. Changing from "1920x1200@60" to "1920x1200@58" in xorg.conf did indeed work. Should this be a displayconfig-gtk bug?

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Same happens here with:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)

I don't get the highes resolution though, it keeps resetting to the lowest. And with the wrong refresh rate so my screen goes "picasso" on me.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I believe this is fixed with the new gnome-display-properties tool. If not, please feel free to reopen with additional detail.