-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got an ancient laptop from a friend; he thinks that with only 512 MiB of RAM it is worthless ;-) It has a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz" CPU and the video is "Intel Corporation i845" from "Uniwill Computer Corp". The doc says "Intel® Extreme Graphics" The video is the problem. I tested Puppy Wary 5.2 - it works fine. It detects the video card but not the monitor, so I select from a list: 1024x768x16 h31.5-49,5v56-72. This works, fills the entire screen. I don't know if it is the maximum resolution, the documentation does not say (only that is «TFT 14” (N618) or 15” (N619-N620) XGA». The wikipedia lists XGA as "XGA 1024 768 4:3 0.786" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGA#XGA_.281024.C3.97768.29) so it seems I have it right. During installation of openSUSE from DVD went perfect - slow, but uneventful. But on reboot, the display is incorrect. It looks like this +-------------------------------------+ | . | | . | | . | | 1 . 2 | | . | | . | | . | | . | |·····································| | | | | | 3 | | | | | +-------------------------------------+ Area '3' is bright white, '2' is black. The working area is only '1'. It is the same in text mode as in graphical mode. Using "nomodeset" I get an apparent resolution of 640x480, centered with wide black border, and no white region; thus usable, but much less than what the machine is capable off. I have removed plymouth and I'm booting to text mode. The normal kernel boot parameters are; showopts splash=verbose loglevel=3 console=tty1 display=1024x768 which does not work. Without "display=" I get the same results. I have not found documentation for the display option under "/usr/src/linux/Documentation" tree, so I do not know what to try there. At the moment I use: showopts splash=verbose console=tty1 loglevel=3 plymouth.enable=0 nomodeset I have tried: modeset=0 display=1024x768 --> white region nomodeset display=1024x768 --> 640*480 nomodeset display=1024*768 --> 640*480 display=1024x768 --> white region All official updates are applied. For X, the release notes say to do: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Driver "intellegacy" EndSection This makes X not to start: [ 375.163] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intellegacy [ 375.163] (II) UnloadModule: "intellegacy" [ 375.163] (II) Unloading intellegacy [ 375.163] (EE) Failed to load module "intellegacy" (module does not exist, 0) [ 375.163] (EE) No drivers available. :-O ! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIH8egACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UspgCeNsNiDZXs3aUGRB89f37uYU7B OkkAn3Vj7a3Ud/Hddp5P2NHvnnLkM4A+ =t+0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----