Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Laurent Renard <lrenard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 21 mars 2006 à 15:11 -0500, Jerry Feldman a écrit :

> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 2:51 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 14:41, Laurent Renard wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > Suse 10 / Gnome
> > >
> > > I cannot set up the real resolution for my DELL screen which should be
> > > a minimum of 1400x1050 or 1600x...
> > > Could you help me ?
> >
> > Hi Laurent,
> >
> > From your desktop:
> >
> > 1. Log out (end session only; not shutdown or reboot)
> > 2. At the greeter, switch to a console (tty1 = Ctl+Alt+F1)
> > 3. log in as root and drop to run level 3 ("init 3") to shut down gdm & X
> > 4. run SaX2 ("sax -l") to configure the settings manually
> > 5. Note 1: that's a lower case 'L', not a 'one'; runs it in VGA mode
> > 6. **Note 2** you'll need the display and graphics card specs when you do
> > this
> If you don't have the specs that came with the mon itor, here is one place 
> to get them.
> http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_2005FPW/4507-3174_7-31232082.html
> Note that you can get Sax2 to probe the graphics card. 
> -- 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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> 

Wonderful !
-- 
         
Laurent Renard