Re: [SLUG] resolution will not save

From: Pete Theisen (petetheisen@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 10:23:40 EDT


Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:27:57AM -0400, draeath wrote:
>
>> I've had trouble with it before as well. My solution was to disable
>> EDID data completely, and manually specify "modelines" in my X config.
>> Basically I had to tell X to stop playing with it and take me
>> literally.
>
> I have to echo this. The most sure way I can think of to ensure X does
> exactly what I want is to hack the X config file.
>
> Paul
>

Hi Paul,

The behavior I was getting was that Ubuntu simply would not save the
file. Sudo or not.

Of course, you can't log into Ubuntu directly as root.

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