A proper modeline is the most important for widescreen. Here is an example I used to get my laptop running widescreen. <sample> Now the following steps adds the 1280x800 screen resolution. Change the Monitor and the screen section within xorg.conf Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x800" # different from original file HorizSync 31.5 - 100.0 # different from original file VertRefresh 30.0 - 100.0 # different from original file Option "dpms" UseModes "16:10" # insert new line EndSection # notice many lines changed Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Now create a new section and insert it anywhere after any of the EndSection statments in the xorg.conf file. Section "Modes" Identifier "16:10" Modeline "1280x800" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 EndSection </sample> B-) On Tuesday 02 August 2005 09:40 am, Colin Carter wrote:
Thanks Dominick and Brad for your suggestions. Dominick, I am not 'Linux mature' enough to identify and configure drivers by myself, but a college at work will help me with you ideas.
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 00:29, Brad Bourn wrote:
Oh, ya. To get your widescreen working properly, You need a proper modeline.
"Widescreen" ! Yes, I suppose it is. I did think that the resolution was strange; in fact it is not offered as an option/choice by SuSE installation. I'll have to look up your word 'modeline'. clc
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On Monday 01 August 2005 08:21 am, Brad Bourn wrote:
On Sunday 31 July 2005 08:24 am, Colin Carter wrote:
Any ideas on how to interrupt the boot process and set the screen parameters? Any ideas on how to get SuSE to fix this bug?
Sounds like you just don't have the monitor setup properly. On the initial boot screen (while counting down) type a 3 and hit enter. This boots you to runlevel 3 (before X). Then you can use sax to configure your monitor. Be careful. You should either enter in the dimensions for you monitor (in mm the actual size of the screen) or choose a generic flat panel (This is what I do).
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Thanks for the runlevel 3 information: valuable to me. I tried the generic flap panel - no luck, I tried booting with / without setting the resolution by F2 - no luck During installation SuSE does give me the option to enter the screen size in mm; I did try that, but it didn't work. I don't understand the idea of entering mm - because then code would need to know the dpi value - true? And X Window code uses pixels for window dimensions, not mm! It must be a bug in the SuSE code because SuSE uses the correct size for windows (no windows fall out of the screen etc) for over an hour of downloading updates and installation of the OS and the software.
When the system starts after final reboot it gives me, in a correctly formatted window, the option of a manual configuration of the window. After selecting 'Yes' SuSE presents me with a list of dimensions as width X height with refresh frequencies - none of which match my screen. There is an option of entering my own dimensions, but no provision to enter frequency(s). But anyway, it then promptly jumps into flicker mode.
I really don't think that there is a problem with the hardware as XP manages quite well, and DSL (Damned Small Linux) boots up with zero problems. So it must be a bug in SuSE.
Perhaps it is better in 9.3 but I have already purchased 9.1 because 9.0 failed to install on my main PC. ( I believe in paying for my software but not over and over again because the damned stuff fails!)
I'll keep trying, I might just need the exact steps to fool the software, but it is going to cost me many bloody sleepless nights! So I'd appreciate any more 'try this' suggestions.
Regards, Colin