13.1: laptop external monitor boots to low resolution

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I have a Lenovo T61 laptop (intel graphics) which I usually run in a dock, connecter to a Dell 2001FP monitor with 1600x1200 native resolution. I just replaced the hard drive with an SSD, and upgraded to 13.1 (from 11.?). Now when I power on the machine, it will frequently come up with the monitor’s display set to something like 1024x768. It’s intermittent, though: after 4-5 power-off reboots, it gets correct resolution.

This happened very infrequently (maybe once a month or less) with the old disk/OS.
Output from xrandr (at 1600x1200):

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767
LVDS1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1680x1050      60.1 +   50.1  
   1400x1050      60.0  
   1280x1024      60.0  
   1280x960       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
VGA1 connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 275mm
   1600x1200      60.0*+
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   848x480        60.0  
   640x480        59.9  
DVI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Trying to reset the low resolution with "xrandr --output VGA1 --mode “1600x1200” doesn’t work when it boots to the lower resolution, though I can change to lower res & back when it comes up at normal res.

Any ideas as to what could be the problem? Is it possible that the SSD is just letting it boot too quickly?

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In the case where your machine boots to a lower resolution, examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors. If you want to share the log, please upload to http://paste.opensuse.org/
and post link to it here.

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Thanks. Discussion of this and additional bugs (mostly fixed - yay!) is now in this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/495557-xrandr-bugs-(13-1) A link to the Xorg log file is there.