X settings not saved under KDE 4

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:44 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I have a widescreen (1440x900) Samsung LCD, which works fine under F8,
> > with both Gnome and KDE. The video card is an onboard Intel 965 (Intel
> > mobo). Anaconda set me up with the Intel video driver and a 1024x768
> > display (stretched of course).
> 
> Yeah anaconda itself doesn't do high res, but it probably is not that anaconda 
> guessed low for your installed resolution but that X incorrectly responded to 
> the monitor after DDC probing, so look in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and file a 
> bug on what is happening.  Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf should not have resolutions 
> specified by default and your monitor should be getting put into a standard 
> (nice) native resolution rather than getting stretched.

I removed explicit modelines from xorg.conf and tried again, to no
avail. I enclose my Xorg.0.log file, which looks OK. In fact it shows
that it is detecting 1440x900 but the display is definitely stretched.

> > * With KDE under F9-Preview (+ updates as of today) I can't use the
> > Display Settings widget as the screen goes black and leaves me with
> > nothing but a cursor.
> > 
> > * From runlevel 3 I tried system-config-display and set things up as I
> > want them. X proceeds to ignore the settings.
> 
> File bug, include xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log after X starts and 'ignores' these 
> settings.

I'll do that.

> > * Under Gnome I can run the display widget and set the screen correctly,
> > but as as soon as I log out it reverts to its previous state.
> 
> Yes because its configured for your user's environment with randr, every user 
> can login differently.  If you want global configuration (for GDM) you've got to 
> do that in xorg.conf.
> 
> > * When I log out of the desktop (either one) I get a brief flash of an
> > error box saying something about "AVC violation" but it goes away
> > immediately.
> 
> This will be logged so you can 'grep avc /var/log/messages', but they can be 
> better seen if you're running setroubleshootd (should be on default) by running 
> selinux troubleshooter in the applications menu next time you login.

OK.

poc
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