FC3 on HP nx9110

[James Pifer]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:55, James Pifer wrote:
> Anyone running FC3 on an HP nx9110. I've been running for a few weeks
> now and most things are going well. I usually use an external LCD
> monitor running at 1280x1024. I happen to be traveling at the moment and
> the resolution I'm getting on the builtin display is terrible. Doesn't
> matter what I choose it doesn't change. Trying to use Ctrl+fn+alt++
> doesn't do anything. My xorg.conf lists several resolutions. Right now

Update... While messing around with this last night I broke something
and in the process of recovering logged in as root. When I did I found
root was at a higher resolution than when I login with my account. 

Why is that? How do I get a higher resolution for my account?

Thanks,
James