Is there a way to set screen resolution in gdm?

[Chris G]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:32:33PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> 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.
> 
My old Fedora 8 system (which drives the same monitor) has nothing in
the xorg.conf file specifying the resolution.  It has nvidia graphics
rather than Intel so I can't just copy the whole file.

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Chris Green