Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El 01/03/12 13:23, j.e.perry@xxxxxxx escribió:
> I bought a new Samsung 23" monitor. It has an HDMI connector, which
> doesn't seem to work, and a VGA connector, which does.
>
> At first, with the HDMI, it worked beautifully in both Windows xp and
> opensuse 12.1. After a couple of weeks, the HDMI connection failed.
> Windows shows huge images that you have to push against the edges of the
> monitor to get to the entire image (sorry, I can't think of a better way
> to describe it), and suse just says "the monitor reports an invalid VESA
> mode of 0x31A" and refuses to boot.
>
> I tried the VGA connection, and Windows gives a beautiful 1920X1080
> image. suse boots, but refuses to go above 1280X1024,which the monitor
> insists on stretching to the full 1920X1080, giving an ugly, distorted
> image. With the loss of SAX2, I don't know how to make suse do the right
> thing on the VGA connector. Google gives a number of similar situations
> with fixes for ubuntu, but none seem to match mine, and I don't know
> what to put into the video configuration file to get it.
>
> Is there a way to get suse to give me 1920X1080 through the VGA connection?
>
> John Perry

Looks like your drivers are broken everywhere.. what does

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard and /usr/sbin/hwinfo --framebuffer say ?
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