Hello On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:15 -0700, MHR wrote: > I am running a (fully updated) CentOS 5.2 x86_64 box that has been > working just fine for over a year, with a few minor glitches (like > this one?) here and there. > > I just picked up an Emprex LE22A3 (21.6" 1680x1050 WSXGA) monitor and > tried to get it work nicely with my system, and it works fine until I > login to GNOME. > > During the boot, all the way up to and including the login screen, I > get the full 1680x1050 resolution, and also on the secondary consoles. > > However, when I login to my GNOME desktop, the screen gets reset to > 1280x1024 and refuses to work in widescreen mode at all. > > I've run through every scenario I (and some of the CentOS list folks) > can think of, all kinds of tweaks to xorg.conf, even downloaded the > latest and greatest nvidia driver, and every time, without fail, > during the blackout between the login screen and the desktop, the > video gets reset. I've tried using system-config-display and manual > tweaks, and nothing seems to shake this. I've even rebooted (in case > it was a kudzu related thing), but no. S-c-d shows that the monitor > is a "Generic LCD 1680x1050", but even after it sets the mode up for > 16x10, it goes back to 1280x1024. I even set it so that the only mode > listed in the Modes in xorg.conf is "1680x1050" and no go. > > I went through and manually deleted all the older nvidia driver files > to make sure there was no confusion (although I'm not sure this > actually made a difference). > > Is there anything I'm missing? Some other configuration file or > record somewhere I need to tweak? with gconf-editor, check "/desktop/gnome/screen/default/0/resolution" .
> > Thanks. > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray Ph: +919970164885 Desktop LinuX N Stuff, RHCE Software Maintenance Engineer, Pune, Red Hat ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
