Hi O'smith,
Hi All,
I've read many of your messages on this mailing list about peoples opinions on the latest SuSE Linux Profession 8.2 distribution and decided to share with all of you some of my thoughts on this topic. (snip)
KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I came home today all by itself. ******************
Can't say that I have seen or heard of this problem. My thoughts are hardware or you need to run sax2 again. Might try checking only one resolution, rather than 2 or 3 and since LCD monitors only work the best at the recommended resolution, it doesn't do much good to select more than one in sax2. Anyway, you can activate the randr program now for XFree86 4.3 and change on the fly from KDE!
Thats a good thought definitely worth checking out. During the installation I chose the 1280x1024 resolution @ 75HZ refresh rate and picked the "generic" LCD monitor choice in YaST. It looked fine initially. I will look at Sax2 to make sure now. Thanks, ~~Nick --- On Thu 04/24, O'Smith < penguin0601@earthlink.net > wrote: From: O'Smith [mailto: penguin0601@earthlink.net] To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:24:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.2 Critique On Thursday 24 April 2003 19:59, Nicholas Parsons wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> I've read many of your messages on this mailing list about<br>> peoples opinions on the latest SuSE Linux Profession 8.2 distribution<br>> and decided to share with all of you some of my thoughts on this<br>> topic.<br>(snip)<br>><br>> KDE 3.1 truly rocks overall but I found a glitch in the<br>> X server shipped with SuSE 8.2. When leaving my machine on but idle<br>> for a few hours my viewing area becomes "smaller" and I have to log<br>> out and then back in to recover it. I am using a Sony<br>> SDM-S71 LCD monitor. Anyway I thought it might have been a problem<br>> with KDE so I logged out and then logged into the gnome<br>> environment. I have not left since. I still have issues with<br>> the viewing area but it seems to have corrected itself when I<br>> came home today all by itself.<br>>******************<br>Can't say that I have seen or heard of this problem. My thoughts are <br>hardwa re or you need to run sax2 again. Might try checking only one <br>resolution, rather than 2 or 3 and since LCD monitors only work the <br>best at the recommended resolution, it doesn't do much good to select <br>more than one in sax2. Anyway, you can activate the randr program now <br>for XFree86 4.3 and change on the fly from KDE!<br>-----------------------------<br>> Visiting the http://www.yesnetwork.com web site caused both<br>> Galean and Mozilla browsers to crash with a segmentation fault.<br>> Can anyone on this list please try to visit this site on their<br>> SuSE boxes and tell me if it crashes for them too?<br>>********************<br>Nick,<br>This is the error I get from Konq trying your site:<br>Found a cyclic link in http://www.yesnetwork.com/index.cfm<br><br>So my guess, from the error, is that the site is bad or badly programed <br>or meant for IE only! It didn't crash Konq, Konq just didn't start up.<br><br>(snip)<br>><br>><br>> ~~Nick<br>----------------- ----------------<br><br>Patrick<br>-- <br> --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 ---<br> Registered Linux User #225206<br> On any other day, that might seem strange...<br><br>-- <br>Check the headers for your unsubscription address<br>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com<br>Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com<br>Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com<br><br><br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
On Thursday 24 April 2003 22:10, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Hi O'smith, (snip)
Can't say that I have seen or heard of this problem. My thoughts are hardware or you need to run sax2 again. Might try checking only one resolution, rather than 2 or 3 and since LCD monitors only work the best at the recommended resolution, it doesn't do much good to select more than one in sax2. Anyway, you can activate the randr program now for XFree86 4.3 and change on the fly from KDE!
Thats a good thought definitely worth checking out. During the installation I chose the 1280x1024 resolution @ 75HZ refresh rate and picked the "generic" LCD monitor choice in YaST. It looked fine initially. I will look at Sax2 to make sure now.
Thanks, ~~Nick ==================
Another thought Nick is to add your monitor to the database, if it is not already there. It's simple to edit the file of monitors to add yours, just be sure to get the model and specs correct. Once done with that, go to init 3 and run sax2 to reconfigure. Your database is located here: /usr/X11R6/lib/sax/api/data/cdb look for the file Monitors and search for your brand, add yours in exactly like the others and with the right scan rates, there you go. You might want to make a backup as any updates to the graphics may lose your edited file. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
On Friday 25 April 2003 05:42, O'Smith wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2003 22:10, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
Hi O'smith,
Thats a good thought definitely worth checking out. During the installation I chose the 1280x1024 resolution @ 75HZ refresh rate and picked the "generic" LCD monitor choice in YaST. It looked fine initially. I will look at Sax2 to make sure now.
Thanks, ~~Nick
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Another thought Nick is to add your monitor to the database, if it is not already there. It's simple to edit the file of monitors to add yours, just be sure to get the model and specs correct. Once done with that, go to init 3 and run sax2 to reconfigure. Your database is located here:
/usr/X11R6/lib/sax/api/data/cdb
look for the file Monitors and search for your brand, add yours in exactly like the others and with the right scan rates, there you go. You might want to make a backup as any updates to the graphics may lose your edited file.
Patrick --
I have exactly the same monitor and I used the supplied Windows .inf file to insert the right specs into the database. HTH, Marcel
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