Display settings strange behavious

ismail bushra sam33ool at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 14:59:03 UTC 2007


Which FC? u r use?

On Nov 19, 2007 5:48 PM, Peter Lauri <peterlauri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Thinkpad T43 and just purchased a new ThinkVision monitor.
> All works find out of the box if I startx in the root account. But if
> I do the same thing with a normal user account the resolution is not
> put to the native resolution (1600x1200). If I try to set it via the
> display config tool, and restart X server I cannot login anymore. And
> when I reboot the computer, the lower resolution is back in the
> settings.
>
> It feels like that the user don't have permissions to setup its
> display preference. But I don't know where to start to look.
>
> Any hints why root can get proper display settings but not a normal user.
>
> /Peter
>
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