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#1 2007-04-21 13:34:56

Mindaugas
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-03-25
Posts: 95

GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

When GDM is started resolution is about 1600 and refresh rate is ~60
When I login to Gnome it's normal 1280x1024 at refresh rate 85

What I do wrong?

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#2 2007-04-22 10:36:52

Captain Spaulding
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Re: GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

You probably have defined higher resolutions in your Xorg configuration and set them manually to a lower resolution in Gnome. The solution is to reconfigure your configuration. Edit as root the following file /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Find the section called "Screen", there you will find lines looking like this:

        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection

In the "Modes" line remove all settings that are higher than you desired resolution. After that restart you X-Server by pressing ALT+CTRL+BACKSPACE.

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#3 2007-04-23 21:50:22

Mindaugas
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-03-25
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Re: GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

Thanks Captain Spaulding wink

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#4 2008-08-23 08:04:58

zephyrus17
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Registered: 2008-06-15
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Re: GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

I'm having the same problem. But the xorg.conf fix didn't fix it.

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#5 2008-08-24 01:25:45

vau
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From: Adelaide, Australia
Registered: 2008-08-23
Posts: 24

Re: GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

I was having similar but different problem.
Sometimes, after some of the application's crash I had to restart xorg (ctrl-alt-backspace) and screen was switching to weird resolution (perhaps, 320x200 or similar) in gdm and, after login, in gnome, too. The only way I could get my proper resolution back was to reboot.
I didn't see it for couple of months now, but it would be interesting to know what it might have been

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#6 2008-08-24 02:03:13

Odd-rationale
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Registered: 2008-02-05
Posts: 102

Re: GDM resolution diff then gnome. need help please.

I had a similar issue which may or may not be exactly the same. I simply used xrandr to fix it.

See the bottom of this thread for details: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50641

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