On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > Something is resetting the video mode to 1280x1024 when GNOME comes up > - is there any file other than xorg.conf that might cause this? I'm not sure if this is related, but compiz won't do large resolutions. I had to switch to metacity to get gnome to run at > 1280x1024. That was on my work laptop running ubuntu, though, so take it with the appropriate grain of salt.