On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:21:11 -0700 walt wrote: > On 10/05/2009 05:30 PM, David Relson wrote: > > > ...As it > > happens, I logged out yesterday and logged back in and now have the > > higher resolution I wanted. 'Tis all very peculiar. > > (Doing my part to lower the signal-to-noise ratio ;o) > > I've noticed in the past month or three that when I reboot the machine > or even just restart X for some reason, very rarely the the X server > starts with the wrong screen resolution(!). > > All I need to do to fix the resolution problem is to log out of the X > session and restart X. > > At this point I am firmly convinced that sunspots and/or cosmic rays > are flipping random bits in my machine's memory. Although there are > no other random flakey events that would suggest hardware failure. > > I'm mystified -- but at least the workaround is trivial, and the box > is rock solid until the next time it happens.
A nice workaround. The tip is appreciated :->
