Re: [SLUG] resolution will not save

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 11:38:39 EDT


On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.

You can do "sudo bash -l", which is pretty much equivalent. If you must
have root X (which I don't recommend) you can kill gdm and run startx from
within there. Or start a second instance of X on a different VT.

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