I found lately that if I run Wolfenstein, once in a while if I exit openbox and run dwm my screen resolutions are wrong. First I thought just rebooting the computer would fix it, but it didn't.
Now I do know that my mobo does have certain quirks with it. However, when it causes problems it has never started X, instead it would freeze the system and I would have to ssh into it to reboot the computer. Which would usually take running e2fsck from slax then the problem would be fixed.
This time, the new problem seems to ocur only after running Wolfenstein et.
The first time I exited openbox then ran dwm which would be in a screen resolution of 1280x1024 which normally I have it set to 1024x768. I then exited dwm and ran openbox which was the same. Then I rebooted from slackware into zenwalk. Now zenwalk was at an aweful 800x600 resolution (which it is also set to 1024x768). In both slackware and zenwalk my xorg.conf file only has mode 1024x768, I have removed all other modes from it. Also, I use either i810 or intel drivers in both distro's (they both work equally well, one better for certain things and the other better for others, but changing drivers does nothing when this problem ocurs).
Next I wondered about something, so I rebooted into slackware, started xfce4 then changed the resolution back to 1024x768, and voila it was perfect.
After a few days of banging my head against the wall when this happened every day at least 2 times a day, I searched and searched the internet and found xrandr and gave it a try while running openbox. Well, I just used it not long ago and the screen looks perfect, although I did have to rerun feh --bg-scale to get the background set correctly.
xrandr output (after I reset the screen resolution, but it basically gives the same data except for the current resolution).
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Screen 0: minimum 320x200, current 1024x768, maximum 1600x1600 VGA connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 360mm x 270mm
1280x1024 85.0 + 84.8 75.0
1600x1200 75.0
1280x960 84.9
1024x768 84.9* 75.1
800x600 84.9 75.0
640x480 84.6 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
Well, unfortunately I lost my train of thought. So to make a long explanation (perhaps even a poorly written one) short...
Though it is most likely impossible to know what a bad mobo will do to a system, could there be another problem that could be causing this? Since it happens in both distro's and even after rebooting several times I am certain that it would have to be the mobo, but eh, what do I know, I'm not very tech savvy,
, but that's not important. I usually find some interesting information when I ask insignificant information like this...
So thanks for any info or enlightenment anyone might have...
<Edit> Rebooted into slax and it has the same problem...
I ran xrandr and this is what I got with it (Oddly enough the screen resolutions are very different than with the slackware distro)
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Screen 0: minimum 320x200, current 800x600, maximum 800x800
VGA connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 360mm x 270mm
800x600 75.0*
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
Oh, I should mention that even after this problem ocurs all opengl games I have on this system still work...