Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Peter Taylor <murmur@xxxxxxx>]

> From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> With someone else's help from the list, I figured this out. To fix this I:
> - made sure "1600x1200" was in the Section "Screen"->Sub Section
> "Display"->Modes
> - deleted the Section "Monitor"->UseModes line
> from /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> Note, only do the above if you have a newish monitor. Basically X won't
> tell the monitor what settings to use and so your monitor has to cope with
> it.

  I have been suffering from a severe case of "buyer's remorse" over SuSE 8.0 
(nVidia GeForce2 GTS AGP card and Dell E771p monitor).  SaX2 keeps forcing me 
to do hard resets.  What chaps me is that Red Hat 7.2 installed flawlessly.  

  I finally figured out to tell SaX2 not to calculate modelines.  But I have 
no idea what the differences are between CheckDesktopGeometry, 
IteratePrecisely, or UseFramebufferTiming.  Where is this stuff documented?

  How seriously should I take the warning not to edit the XF86Config file?  
Does SaX2 maintain its own information somewhere else?

  Thanks,
  Peter Taylor