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texjunky

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 8

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gnome freezes with screen resolution change

I have on old Dell computer for learning Arch. I installed gnome
and my screen looks fuzzy. I checked the screen resolution it
was set beyond the recomended resolution of the monitor (1024X768).
I set the resolution to 1024X768 and clicked "apply". The resolution
changed and indeed looked sharper, but the computer immediatly froze.
I had to power down and up after which the settings were lost.

I have no idea if this is a hardware or software problem. It would
seem that (perhaps) if 1024X768 were put in a configuration file,
the problem might be averted. But what configuration file?

Any help would be appreciated.

FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 57

Re: gnome freezes with screen resolution change

I believe you can change your default resolution in the file
/etc/xorg.conf

Check this section of the wiki :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Resolution

texjunky

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Registered: 2007-10-12

Posts: 8

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Re: gnome freezes with screen resolution change

Thanks very much! That worked.