Now I have to make a presentation of SUSE that is to be shown tomorrow, and naturally, I wanted to use a laptop with SUSE. So, our sales gave me this brand new Dell Inspiron 1100 with Intel 845GL onboard graphics. And at this point, instead of working on the presentation, I'm reading fsking docs from intel and trying to configure the damn graphics for more than the embarrassing 640x480x16 bits, the only mode that came up. I'm way pissed... What? am I gonna have to use windows? :-O nooo... help me! 9.0 with all updates.
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
And at this point, instead of working on the presentation, I'm reading fsking docs from intel and trying to configure the damn graphics for more than the embarrassing 640x480x16 bits, the only mode that came up.
Just tell me that it can be done.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 08:40, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > Now I have to make a presentation of SUSE that is to be shown tomorrow, > and naturally, I wanted to use a laptop with SUSE. > > So, our sales gave me this brand new Dell Inspiron 1100 with Intel 845GL > onboard graphics. > > And at this point, instead of working on the presentation, I'm reading > fsking docs from intel and trying to configure the damn graphics for > more than the embarrassing 640x480x16 bits, the only mode that came up. > > I'm way pissed... > > What? am I gonna have to use windows? :-O nooo... help me! > > > 9.0 with all updates. Perhaps you should start w/YaST | Hardware & try choosing a different monitor - --it includes LCD at different resolutions. Then one can choose a different color depth, as well, from the 'resolution' menu item. In my experience w/three or four distros, I noted that an installation left to its own devices probably will not set everything up exactly the way one might want it ...but will come up working, which is probably the whole idea. - -- ...CH Avoid doing business with 'The Link' ISP. SuSE Is All U Need Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbYCRamdq40EXXvQRAk5VAKCqeB0UUSDUNyh8hE03w8spdWa65QCcCfeA uRfuf//e4LhSeNfOOT1v38M= =DTpc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
FWIW - 8.2 on a dell I 8500 - the solution to the unusual display was to accept a yast default then edit xf86config manually to match the odd display -- no problems since HTH F
C Hamel wrote:
Perhaps you should start w/YaST | Hardware & try choosing a different monitor - --it includes LCD at different resolutions.
I've tried changing the monitor, I even tried VESA ones, it's all the same, the monitor is not the problem. I set the color and resolution as 1024x768x16 bits and sax2 comes up in 640x480 and says screen[0] no video mode tunning available. This is bad.
As an interim step, use the 'framebuffer'... This will give you the time you require to complete your presentation... you can then return later & fine-tune your system... I use this technique routinely on a new system, if the original hardware sensing gets things a little goofy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Friday 02 April 2004 22:10, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
C Hamel wrote:
Perhaps you should start w/YaST | Hardware & try choosing a different monitor - --it includes LCD at different resolutions.
I've tried changing the monitor, I even tried VESA ones, it's all the same, the monitor is not the problem.
I set the color and resolution as 1024x768x16 bits and sax2 comes up in 640x480 and says screen[0] no video mode tunning available.
This is bad.
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