I’ve read some people having the same problem, but I can’t manage to fix it.
I got a 1440x900 screen. Every time I reboot my system starts up with 1400x1050 , I have to go to System settings to fix it, options don’t get saved as one would expect.
Well, I think my problem is cause of nvidia drivers, so I go to nvidia settings to get this fixed. But, these settings are all fine, it says 1440x900. When I try pressing Save to X (to make sure it gets saved), i get a failed to parse message (Failed to parse existing X config file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’!). I’ve got driver version 256.53
Oh well, screw this, I’ll do it manually, so I go to the xorg.conf file. But over here everything says 1440x900. How come my resolution keeps changing each time I reboot?
Thanks gropiuskalle, I managed to fix it. One of the things I did was to write the identifier xrandr outputs. I already had the preferred mode option in monitor.
The other was on section Screen, I have an item that says Modes “1440x900” “1280x960” “1152x864” …
I changed it to Modes “1440x900” “1440x900” “1152x864” …
And it turned to work perfectly so far.
I don’t understand why it works though(I didn’t understand why it didn’t before either). Do you think I should leave this like this? can having duplicate modes bring problems later?
I think nothing actually. Well, it still doesn’t get parsed correctly by nvidia-settings. But I guess you’re right, I’ll just leave it like this since everything is working.