Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?
On 20110123_174918, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:54 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
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> > On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
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> >> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not
> >> try on production machines), I can open a bug report on this.
> >>
> >
> > I have no special knowledge. Just a suggestion on reading this thread.
> > Outside the file system, but still on disk, is the swap space. I have
> > always supposed that swap space was always wiped clean and fully
> > re-initialized on boot, but I don't know. Short of that, I suppose
> > something can be written into the boot rom. But that seems harder to do
> > than something involving creative (crazy?) use of swap space.
>
> Crazy things happen all time so I tried your suggestion.
>
> I disabled "/swap" from "/etc/fstab" and restarted the VM. My current
But whatever you did to 'disable' swap might work on the design
intended use of swap and might not have any effect on X non-standard
cryptic access to that piece of hard disk real estate.
Paranoid I am.
> resolution is 1280x1024. After booting I checked that no "/swap"
> partition was in use and tried the same steps by running xrandr to change
> the mode to 800x600 and restarted the machine but the last selected mode
> (800x600) was kept after restarting with no "/swap" at all.
>
> This is getting very weird. How can this setting prevail between
> bootings? Even this is something involving VM guest additions module it
> should be saved in some place.
>
> Greetings,
>
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> Camaleón
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