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Re: [opensuse-factory] Monitor frequences during installation
- From: "Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:12:41 +0200
- Message-id: <450730D9.1070707@xxxxxxxx>
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> The general policy with LCD displays HAS TO be: "lowest frequencies" at
> recognized resolutions.
> I.e. 1024x768@60Hz or 1280x1024@60Hz for example. No higher frequencies during
> the installation phase please, or give the user a choice.
> Currently the only chance for a user in that situation is to use a lower
> resolution (I have learned to always use 800x600 to survive), but this affects
> readability in a bad manner. Totally unnecessary.
I do agree 100% regarding this long time, stupid "Monitor out of range"
problem. I also filed this a bug or RFE during the previous 10.x beta,
but got replied that this wouldn't be fixed (hardcoded info or
something!?). And this problem has existed as long as I've used SuSE
based distros, i.e I did encounter this on Sun Java Desktop system based
on SLES8.1, on SuSE 9.x Pro and latest 10.x.
My Viewsonic VP191b LCD manages 1280x1024@75. Checking with the F key on
the first SUSE installation screen shows that the correct 1280x1024
resolution is set. But if I continue with this, soon after the monitor
runs "Out of Range" and one have to start from scratch again. The reason
I've found out is that the frequences is set too high, 85 Hz which my
monitor cannot manage! The only workaround (for us that know it) to come
further with the installation is to manually change to the lower
1024x768 resolution. I verified this earlier during the later, listed
hardware configuration, where the monitor was set to 1280x1024@85Hz, and
had change it to (LCD) 1280x1024@75Hz (SaX2) before finishing the
configuration.
And now this does not only affect SUSE distros. The new GUI installation
of the latest Ubuntu 6.0.6 (which for me looks to mostly have copied
SUSE's first installation screen), does cause the same Monitor out of
range problem!
On the other hand, when I previous installed SkoleLinux based on
Debian's text menu's on the same hardware, no monitor problem arised.
Login to KDE after this installation showed that the correct
1280x1024@75Hz had been set. So obvisiously it looks to be possible to
grab the right values.
Rgds,
Terje J. Hanssen
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> The general policy with LCD displays HAS TO be: "lowest frequencies" at
> recognized resolutions.
> I.e. 1024x768@60Hz or 1280x1024@60Hz for example. No higher frequencies during
> the installation phase please, or give the user a choice.
> Currently the only chance for a user in that situation is to use a lower
> resolution (I have learned to always use 800x600 to survive), but this affects
> readability in a bad manner. Totally unnecessary.
I do agree 100% regarding this long time, stupid "Monitor out of range"
problem. I also filed this a bug or RFE during the previous 10.x beta,
but got replied that this wouldn't be fixed (hardcoded info or
something!?). And this problem has existed as long as I've used SuSE
based distros, i.e I did encounter this on Sun Java Desktop system based
on SLES8.1, on SuSE 9.x Pro and latest 10.x.
My Viewsonic VP191b LCD manages 1280x1024@75. Checking with the F key on
the first SUSE installation screen shows that the correct 1280x1024
resolution is set. But if I continue with this, soon after the monitor
runs "Out of Range" and one have to start from scratch again. The reason
I've found out is that the frequences is set too high, 85 Hz which my
monitor cannot manage! The only workaround (for us that know it) to come
further with the installation is to manually change to the lower
1024x768 resolution. I verified this earlier during the later, listed
hardware configuration, where the monitor was set to 1280x1024@85Hz, and
had change it to (LCD) 1280x1024@75Hz (SaX2) before finishing the
configuration.
And now this does not only affect SUSE distros. The new GUI installation
of the latest Ubuntu 6.0.6 (which for me looks to mostly have copied
SUSE's first installation screen), does cause the same Monitor out of
range problem!
On the other hand, when I previous installed SkoleLinux based on
Debian's text menu's on the same hardware, no monitor problem arised.
Login to KDE after this installation showed that the correct
1280x1024@75Hz had been set. So obvisiously it looks to be possible to
grab the right values.
Rgds,
Terje J. Hanssen
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