Hi all. While I tend to leave my workstation on 24/7, I recently dropped out of X entirely and upon 'startx', I found that I could not get back into the proper resolution. I am persistently stuck in 640x480. Most irritating. This happened shortly before swapping out a Dell P991 monitor for a Samsung SyncMaster 955df. Both monitors have the same difficulty. Sax2 let me set up the Samsung at 1024x768, which is fine, but I always end up with 640x480. from /var/log/XFree86.0.log (II) I810(0): Monitor[0]: Using hsync range of 30.00-85.00 kHz (II) I810(0): Monitor[0]: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-160.00 Hz (II) I810(0): Not using built-in mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) I810(0): Not using built-in mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "1024x768" (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "800x600" (**) I810(0): *Built-in mode "640x480" (II) I810(0): Attempting to use 103Hz refresh for mode "1024x768" (45) (II) I810(0): Attempting to use 129Hz refresh for mode "800x600" (43) (II) I810(0): Attempting to use 138Hz refresh for mode "640x480" (41) It seems that the last 3 lines suggest that the driver wasn't happy with 1024x768, so it switched to 800x600, wasn't happy there either, and so finally dropped down to 640x480. Unfortunately, the log doesn't give me a clue _why_ the driver might have been unhappy. CTRL-ALT+, CTRL-ALT- only allow the resolution to get worse, not better. Suggestions? TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael@visv.net Recompile and be happy.