Unable to set resolution

Joseph Kubik josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 29 20:01:43 UTC 2005


What is the login manager? XDM, GDM, KDM?
Can you find the .xsession-errors file from the user and see if it
refrences what xf86config file it's using?
Maybe there are errors in that file about permissions?
I've never heard of such a thing.
-Joseph-
On 11/29/05, Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 11/29/05, Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > What Distro?
> > What version of X?
> > What is the monitor? LCD / CRT?
> > If you log in as root, what resolution do you get?
>
> PCLinuxOS .91 with X 6.9 (from cvs, packaged by the distro)
> The monitor is a Dell 2405FPW (LCD), which is autodetected perfectly
> root has the correct 1920x1200
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