Problem with setting display resolution

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:30 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> I have a CRT monitor with the resolution 1024x768. The current
> resolution is 800x600 and when I change it to 1024x768, the new
> setting is not considered after a reboot: again I get the resolution
> 800x600. Any ideas?

I had that until I messed around with which particular monitor I had
from the GUI tool for configuring X.  They can preset the ranges of scan
rates X will try to use.  It seemed the default erred too much on the
side of caution.

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