Upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10, now resolution stuck at 1600x1200

[Jon Pruente]

On 10/21/07, Jason D. Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
> The keyboard LED problem is in xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1.2 and higher
> (which shipped as a part of Xorg 7.3). Ubuntu 7.10 is a hybridization
> of X.org 7.2 and 7.3 according to this page:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/
>
> The upstream bug is here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12434
>
> That appeared from your description to be what the question was about.
>
> As for your problem toggling the NUMLOCK key in software to OFF by
> default, this is Gnome bug. Open configuration editor and go to this
> path to fix it:
>
> /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/host-hostname-desktop/0/numlock_on

Thanks you!  That's it.  interestingly this problem does not happen on
the Fedora Core 7 (Xorg 7.3) on the same KVM.