Hey guys,

I got me a problem. When i start fedora 9 everything is in 800X600, that includes the login manager and kde (the only gui i have installed). This is a recent thing so i guess i changed something but i dont know what. When i go to "configure the desktop" 800X600 is the highest resolution i can get with a refresh rate of either 60Hz or 56.

However, if i go to switch user the settings revert to how they used to be (1024X760) for the login manager and gui. i can then logoff the 1st user and continue as normal. But this is clearly not normal.

Any help please?

Post your xorg.conf.

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "sis"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"
EndSubSection
EndSection

I did try removing all resolutions under mode apart from 1024X768 but that didnt help

thanks for the reply

I found the answer. Basically the problem was caused by retardation.

I use a kvm switch to switch my monitor/keyboard/mouse between 2 pc's. As i wait for linux to boot i tend to switch to the other pc. When i watch the linux boot process the resolution is fine so i assume that grub detects my monitor resolution automatically for the boot process itself. when i am switched to the other pc no monitor is detected so grub loads a default resolution. Maybe its not grub, but either way it was due to my switching to the other pc.

Thank god thats sorted