Sometimes after starting GDM, it just sets up the correct screen resolution (1280x1024, the only one I have listed in xorg.conf) and sometimes just 640x480.
Created attachment 179726 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 179727 [details] Xorg.0.log when it starts with 640x480
acompneu ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_E8500_@_3.16GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.0 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="candy distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/mpd /usr/portage/local/private" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X X509 a52 aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns agg aiglx alsa amd amuled ao aqua_theme archive ares asf asm async asyncns atm auctex automount avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi binary binary-drivers bindist bittorrent bl bonjour bookmarks bootsplash branding bzip2 bzlib cairo captury cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi cli clisp clucene cmake codecs corba cracklib crypt cups curl custreloc dbus dedicated dga dhcp disk-partition divx4linux dlopen dmi dnd dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif faad fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype ftp fuse galago gcj gcl gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gl glib glitz glslideshow glut gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gprof graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip h323 hal haskell howl howl-compat html httpd hyperestraier iconv icq id3 id3tag imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inotify insecure-drivers ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jack java jbig jikes jit jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos lame latex lcms ldap libcaca libnotify libwww linuxthreads-tls live lzo mad matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod modplug mozbranding mozcalendar mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mppe-mppc mudflap multislot musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nemesi nepomuk net network njb nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oss pam pascal pch pcre pdf perl php plasma png pop posix ppds pppd prebuilt-system pthreads pulseaudio python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline realmedia reflection rogue rplay rtc rtsp ruby samba sasl schroedinger screen sdl semantic-desktop server session shorten shout silvercity silverxp skins slp sndfile sockets socks5 solver speedo speex spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs tagwriting tcltk tcpd teamarena teletext tetex tga themes theora threads threadsafe thumbnail tiff transcode truetype type1 unicode unzip urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vidix visualization vlm vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xatrix xattr xcb xcomposite xext xface xforms xine xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xrender xscreensaver xsettings xterm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv apm" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 179729 [details] Xorg.0.log when it starts correctly
+(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-1 The graphics card is intermittently unable to read EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) from your screen. Please be sure to check with another VGA/DVI cable.
(In reply to comment #5) > +(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-1 > > The graphics card is intermittently unable to read EDID (Extended Display > Identification Data) from your screen. Please be sure to check with another > VGA/DVI cable. > Thanks for the hint, that could really be the problem. I don't think it's the cable but it could be the connection, it was a bit loosely (it's because of the DVI to VGA adapter because my GFX card doesn't has VGA anymore). Anyway, is there a way to force the screen resolution? On this computer I wont ever change the monitor (and if I will once, I can edit the xorg.conf again).
Yep. You can always force it. Just google for xorg.conf resolution.
