X settings not saved under KDE 4

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 00:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:44 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I have a widescreen (1440x900) Samsung LCD, which works fine under F8,
> > > with both Gnome and KDE. The video card is an onboard Intel 965 (Intel
> > > mobo). Anaconda set me up with the Intel video driver and a 1024x768
> > > display (stretched of course).
> > 
> > Yeah anaconda itself doesn't do high res, but it probably is not that anaconda 
> > guessed low for your installed resolution but that X incorrectly responded to 
> > the monitor after DDC probing, so look in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and file a 
> > bug on what is happening.  Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf should not have resolutions 
> > specified by default and your monitor should be getting put into a standard 
> > (nice) native resolution rather than getting stretched.
> 
> I removed explicit modelines from xorg.conf and tried again, to no
> avail. I enclose my Xorg.0.log file, which looks OK. In fact it shows
> that it is detecting 1440x900 but the display is definitely stretched.

Further info: I booted the F9 Live CD and the display was configured
correctly. Turns out there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf and X just uses an
internal default.

So I removed xorg.conf in my Preview setup to see what would happen. It
still failed in the same way.

I notice that when the display goes black there is apparently a desktop
still there. The cursor changes shape (arrow or I-beam) according to
where it is on the screen. I just can't see anything except the cursor.

poc

This is now filed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443546