screen resolution not saving

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:16:38AM -0400, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> I have to change my screen resolution every time I boot my ubuntu 7.10 
>> computer.
>>
>> I get a message:
>>
>> ! User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents default 
>> session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and 
>> have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and 
>> not writable by other users.
>>
>> So, I did the following:
>>
>> I ran...
>>
>> chris at bpc:~$ sudo chown chris /home/chris/.dmrc
>>
>> then I ran...
>>
>> chris at bpc:~$ chmod 644 /home/chris/.dmrc
>>
>> then I ran...
>>
>> chris at bpc:~$ sudo chown chris /home/chris
>>
>> I'm still having the same problem.
>>
>> Any next steps I can try?
>>     
>
> ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris/.dmrc
>
> Make sure that both are only writeable by your user (so 755 or 750 or
> whichever for the home directory, and 644 or 640 or whatever for the
> file.
>
>   
Isn't that what I've already done? (see above)

chris at bpc:~$ ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris/.dmrc
drwxrwxrwx 39 chris chris 4096 2008-04-21 18:26 /home/chris
-rw-r--r--  1 chris chris   28 2008-04-01 19:46 /home/chris/.dmrc
chris at bpc:~$
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