FT6t2 Screen Resolution confusion

[Rahul]

Gerry Tool wrote:
> On first boot, I found my screen resolution at an all time high of
> 1920x1232 with refresh of 60Hz.
> 
> I used System > Preferences > Screen Resolution to set it to a more
> comfortable 1600x1200 at 75Hz.
> 
> However, the login screen appears to still be at the original 1920x1232
> at 60Hz, despite me checking the box "Make default for this
> computer...".
> 
> I see that there is another System > Administration > Display menu item
> which opens a different dialog offering a Resolution setting.  However,
> this dialog only offers 800x600 and 640x480 and two color depths.
> 
> Why is the login screen still at the original resolution?  This has
> never been the case before - it always tracked the setting I made in
> Preferences.

Probably a bug. Report that.

> 
> Also, what is the purpose of the Display settings dialog vs the Screen
> Resolution dialog?

Display settings (system-config-display) is system wide, Fedora specific 
and requires root password while the screen resolution is GNOME per user 
preference

Rahul