I tried now the brand new Oneiric Beta and here I did not have the issue so far after a few reboots and cold starts.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/634122 Title: Resolution not set to preferred/maximum occassionally Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Binary package hint: gdm On restart it happened that the resolution is not set to maximum available by default - in my case I do have now black bars on the left and right side. xrandr shows that instead of 1440x900 on my Dell Latitude E5500 1024x768 is used. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gdm 2.30.5-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Sep 9 17:24:11 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/634122/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp