Description of problem: By default X comes up with 1280x1600 resolution, and after appearing to successfully change to 1024x768 via system-configure-display followed by logging out and back in again, the updated resolution didn't appear. I was able to work around this by hand-editing xorg.conf, but I wonder why the same couldn't be accomplished via the GUI. I noticed a very similar bug reported against FC4 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176592
FC6 with all updates as of 12/2/06 allows root user to set screen resolution. This setting does not affect the screen resolution of other users. If logged in as a user other than root, setting the display resolution requires the temporary root password, and allows the setting, but after logging out and back in, the resolution has reverted.
May be a duplicate of #213444.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213444 ***