What Happened?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Norm wrote:

> For while this FC6 installation ran fine then. then it decided to boot
> to a screen resolution of 800x600 resolution the user name and root both
> having selected 1200x1024 as the default resolution If I open the user
> account in 800x600 and immediately log off and back on as user the
> display is then the default 1200x1024 (also the monitor default display)
> When it initially open with the 800x600 resolution there are only 2
> choices for the resolution 800 or the classic 640 resolution. Apart from
> the hassle of having to log on and off no big deal , but the next one was.

What card?  Post your xorg.conf file.

> The recently decided to not recognize the user/passwords at log on,
> although I could still log on as root.  Checking the passwords going by
> the number of asterisks the passwords had all been reduced to 5
> characters (but not the first 5 characters of the old password)
> Creating new accounts did not work as the system appeared to immediately
> truncate the password to 5 characters.
> What causes either of these issues, too the best of my knowledge I was
> not near nor did I edit any files that I would expect to be part of the
> problem.

No clue here.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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