Script to get 1280x1024 screen resolution in Kurumin

I created this script

#!/bin/bash
xrandr 1280x1024

made it executable and then symbolically linked it to ~/.kde/Autostart
This worked fine in getting Kurumin to boot to a 1280x1024 resolution.

Kurumin screen resolution -- CLI to change

I´ve just found that the screen resolution problem I have in Kurumin can be overcome much more easily by just typing

xrandr -s 1280x1024

in a terminal.
You don´t even have to do this as root.
I´m going to make a bash script of this so I can get it to automatically change to a 1280x1024 screen res. on startup.

Continuation of screen resolution problem in Ubuntu (Dell)

No improvement when I started Ubuntu on the Dell this morning. The best I got was 800x600 resolution. So, as I had reinstalled Hardy yesterday without formatting the /home, I now though that perhaps the problem was in /home.
So, I spent some time copying stuff that I needed to the Philips usb HDD (actually, why, given that I'm using usb 2.0, can I only get 22 MB/s (or 176 Mbps) from the Dell to the Philips via a simple usb cable when usb 2.0 is supposed to be able to provide rates up to 480 Mbps?).
In any event, I reinstalled Hardy with formatting of both / and /home.
After I had manually installed the nVidia driver (96.43.05) I got the 1280x1024 resolution. However, after a reboot it was back to either 800x600 or 640x480.
I began to think that perhaps my graphics card was on the way out but when I found that Windows XP on the same machine had no resolution problem I was somewhat reassured.
I tried a lot of changes in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but all to no avail.
So, I googled to see if anybody else had a similar problem. Sure enough, there seems to be some problem with Hardy, X.org and older nVidia cars. Many have had this problem although no quick fix is available.
Then I came across this blog page on this topic. At least two potential solution are suggested. I chose the easier one of trying the nVidia driver install using envyNG.
This is available in the Ubuntu repo (I used envyNG-gtk.
So, I ran this and away it went downloading, deleting and installing a bunch of stuff.
Then I rebooted -- looked good. After rebooting quite a few times it really seems that this is the answer I've been looking for.
However, I'm very unclear what exactly the problem was and why envyNG (but not the manual install of the 96.43.05 driver) did that was so much different. Remember that the problem seemed to start with repeated returns to the login screen yesterday. In addition, I had run with Hardy on this machine for some weeks without problem.
Perhaps an updated I loaded in to Hardy may have taken exception to my rather ancient graphics card.

Strange boot and resolution problem in Ubuntu (Dell)

When I tried to boot into Ubuntu on the Dell this morning, it just kept going back to the login screen.
I found another blog post that seemed to have had a similar problem and overcame it by deleting ~/.gnome, .gnome2. .gconf, .gconfd and .metacity. However, when I did the same, no improvement.
So, now I had to re-install Ubuntu Hardy without formatting the /home.
This went fine and I got everything back (Opera, yakuake, /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf etc, etc).
I also had to manually install the legacy nVidia driver 96.43.05 and this went fine. When I restarted X, the screen came back with the required 1280x1024 resolution and everything looked good.
So after a while I rebooted, but to my great surprise, the screen came up saying that it was in Low-Graphics mode (800x600). So, I re-installed the nVidia driver. The installer said the driver was already there but would be deleted in the new install. Once again, when X was restarted everything was fine but on a further reboot got the same problem over again.
Interestingly, the old xorg.conf file which the nVidia installer renames as a backup, has some differences from the new file. I really have no idea how it gets changed but, even so, I don't see anything that should lead to a 800x600 resolution.
Really don't understand this. Wonder is it at all related to the boot problem I had this morning which, equally, has not been explained.

Cannot get 1280x800 screen res in Foresight on Mac

Currently, I have Ubuntu Hardy, Sidux 2008-1 and Foresight 2.0.2 on my MacBook. In the first two, I have 1280x800 screen resolution without having done anything special. Indeed, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file contains no modelines in the display subsection.
This post and this will describe what I did and didn't do.
I have tried everything I could think of, including adding

Modes "1280x800@60"

, but everything leads to a 1024x768 resolution.
Indeed, even if I go to Systems>Admin>Display and change the resolution to 800x600, it still stays at 1024x768.
very strange.