[opensuse] Manually configure screen resolution
Hi I have just installed 11.3 and am having a problem with the graphics resolution. My screen is actually a TV which does not report its characteristics (1280x720@60Hz). X automatically configures itself to 768x576@50Hz and the screen scales this in such a way as to shift the top, bottom and left side off the physical screen. The installation is fine when attached to a 'normal' monitor (X correctly autoconfigures 1024x768@60Hz). The TV screen functions correctly under 11.2. I tried copy the relevant lines from my old, functional xorg.conf into the new one - but there is no xorg.conf and the use of the files in xorg.conf.d is opaque without adequate documentation. I tried running sax2 to create a xorg.conf file, only to discover that the utility doesn't seem to exist any more. Can anyone tell me how to manually configure X for the required resolution - what information needs to go into which files now there's no central xorg.conf? Thanks Dylan -- “ ‘... but there is so much else behind what I say. It makes itself known to me so slowly, so incompletely! ...’ ” -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
There are several howto's on the wiki and forums about this. Usually not difficult once sorted out. http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_graphics_cards http://wiki.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive:SaX2&oldid=14388 You can use your old xorg.conf file; if it is present, X will use it first. There is also a skeleton xorg.conf file (IIRC xorg.conf.install) which uses the fbdev driver; you can try modifying that to the driver you previously used. If your card is nvidia, the SuSE installation by default installs nouveau. But you can download/compile the nvidia proprietary driver; you will need gcc, make, kernel-source, and kernel-headers (and maybe kernel-syms, I don't remember for sure). That won't be necessary once the 11.3 nvidia repo is set up; for some reason, that always lags the SuSE release date for a while.
Hi
I have just installed 11.3 and am having a problem with the graphics resolution.
My screen is actually a TV which does not report its characteristics (1280x720@60Hz). X automatically configures itself to 768x576@50Hz and the screen scales this in such a way as to shift the top, bottom and left side off the physical screen.
The installation is fine when attached to a 'normal' monitor (X correctly autoconfigures 1024x768@60Hz). The TV screen functions correctly under 11.2.
I tried copy the relevant lines from my old, functional xorg.conf into the new one - but there is no xorg.conf and the use of the files in xorg.conf.d is opaque without adequate documentation.
I tried running sax2 to create a xorg.conf file, only to discover that the utility doesn't seem to exist any more.
Can anyone tell me how to manually configure X for the required resolution - what information needs to go into which files now there's no central xorg.conf?
Thanks
Dylan
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On Sunday 18 July 2010 10:53:50 dwgallien wrote: ...
http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_graphics_cards http://wiki.opensuse.org/index.php?title=Archive:SaX2&oldid=14388
The http://wiki.opensuse.org will work, as it is alias for http://en.opensuse.org it is better to fix bookmarks to point to http://en.opensuse.org and stop using it for new messages. There is no current plans to use it for something else, but one day someone can come on idea to create test server for next wiki upgrade and reuse wiki.o.o domain for that. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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