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