Is there a way to set screen resolution in gdm?

[Frank McCormick]

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.
> 
> Erik
> 

  I am running 8.10 with intel 865 video...and I have a more or less
complete xorg.conf.