On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Just give root a password and you can login as root in a shell or in
> > terminal mode.
> >
> > sudo passwd
> >
> > if I remember correctly.
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Won't save the video configuration no matter what. If you reboot you are
> back to whatever the default is.
Sorry, my mistake. I read that you did not know that you can login as root (in
terminal) so I gave the note about the root pw. It was not intended as a
solution to save your setting.
What seems clear about that is that when X is querying the monitor it reports
back 1024 which then becomes the resolution.
(I would think that running at a resolution not recommended could be lowering
the life of the monitor. But I've never seen that so I really don't know.)
Going back to the days of manually entering the frequency range available to X
might be the way to go.
--Steve Szmidt
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