Comment 9 for bug 16694

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