On Friday 14 October 2005 09:32 am, jdesalvo@ydl.net wrote:
Greetings,
Have been trying for three days now to get the resolution on my 17" Apple Studio Display set properly under X11 and SUSE 10. However, no matter what I do, SUSE/SAX2 seem to take control of my settings and alter them according to what it thinks best.
Have tried running Sax2 with the many different switches documented in the man pages, editing the xorg.conf on my own inserting the proper drivers and modelines, and copying working xorg.conf from prior distributions. Nothing works. The best I can get is a 1028x768@60Hz.
When I try for the resolution I want (and which has worked fine under YDL, Debian, and Gentoo)--1280x1024@75, that setting is trumped somewhere and I end up with the resolution but at the wrong refresh rate, which results in a 2" black border surrounding the X11 display.
How can I tell Sax2 or SUSE to back off and accept the settings that I want, that are appropriate for my monitor, and that have worked fine under other Linux distros?
I'd be grateful for your suggestions or pointers. Thanks.
Joe
Joe, After starting sax2 to change the settings, did you find your monitor in the database or just choose one closest to yours? If your particular model is not in the database, that's ok, we can walk you through adding it later. For now, let's just see if we can get you going. Choose one of the Apple monitors closest to yours then check the Vertical & Horizontal scan rates to see how closely they match the specs on yours. If they are not right, then change them to match. Once that's done, you should be able to select the 1280x1024 setting that will fall within your specs ok. Be sure to select other sizes also, like the 1024x768, 800x600 & 640x480, so some of the games will find a screen they need. Check all other settings, like graphics card, mouse, keyboard and 3D if you want it on. Now finalize, test, be sure to test, save and quit. That should get you there. Let us know if your monitor is not listed and once you get going, we'll go through adding yours to the database. Lee