Is there a way to set screen resolution in gdm?

Erik Christiansen dvalin at internode.on.net
Thu Nov 27 11:32:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12:15AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> The subject says it all really.  I'm running xubuntu 8.10 with an
> Intel G31 based motherboard, thus X is 'auto configured' and there's
> nothing at all in xorg.conf.
> 
> How can I set the resolution for the gdm login screens etc. so that it
> matches what I use in X?  At present it switches resolutions back and
> forth when moving from login to X and back.  More to the point it does
> it wrong sometimes and crashes.

Mario posted recently that you can still use xorg.conf. If you have
entries which worked in prior versions, then I'd try them out.

Erik




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