Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Steven <jaguar11735@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 20:21, Steven <jaguar11735@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have a fresh installation of 11.1 RC1 64-bit.  The installation goes
> > great, as does the loading screen after installation.  Once it gets to
> > the desktop, however, my display (Samsung 40" 1080p HDTV) goes blank
> > and displays "mode not supported".  I tried installing the ATI drivers
> > (8.11) but this made no difference.  Currently I'm using a little
> > Samsung 15" LCD until the HDTV gets working.  A note of interest
> > however, the 15" LCD does not display the correct resolution either,
> > it defaults to 800x600 (native is 1024x768).  Any changes I make to
> > the display (via 'Configure Desktop') are not saved.
> >
> > Hardware:
> > AMD Phenom 9950 BE
> > Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H
> > 4GB RAM
> > ATI Radeon HD 3300 (Integrated graphics)
> > Samsung 40" 1080p HDTV (connected via HDMI)
> >
> > If any other info is required let me know.
>
> It's a known bug, there is no interest of fixing it....
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434469
>
> But you can get it working by manually editing your xorg.conf file.

I was actually able to fix this by doing "aticonfig --initial" after
installing the ATI drivers.  This is a newbie mistake that I should
have caught, but little things like this slip by me from time to time.
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