I'm not really sure what's going on. When I boot my monitor says, 'unable to display this video mode'. At that point I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 with a view to editing xorg.conf, out of a sense of experimentation I hit C+A+F7, and there was the Gnome login screen running at 1280X1024 (which is what I want). What I can't understand is -why- it's doing that. Baza