On Thursday 22 Sep 2005 5:54 am, Michael James wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:47 am, Keith Powell wrote:
Is there anyone who uses an LG Flatron L1510S TFT monitor with SUSE 9.3?
I'm pretty sure the machine at home has one of those. Works fine.
Is it running the proper resolution?
Check SuSE - Control Center - Peripherals - Display
Resolution MUST be 1024 x 768 @ 50, 60 or 75 Hz A TFT will always look horrible at anything but its native resolution.
If it's wrong, drop down to runlevel 3 (text only) If it's already running get a terminal window and su to root. type init 3 If it's not boot it up and type a 3 into the "Boot: " box on the GRUB splash screen.
You'll get a text login screen, log in as root and run sax2. I've forgotten if SuSE9.3 gets it right first time, (SuSE 8.2 got it horribly wrong) but you should get some display. If it's not smooth, say you want to change monitor settings, go to properties and set it to generic LCD 1024x768@60Hz. (I couldn't find L1510S in either "LG" or "LG Electronics")
Test that, save it, and try startx to see what your desktop looks like. Once you think you've done all you can, reboot or "init 5" as root.
Hello Michael. Thanks for your reply, the quote of which I have edited as much as possible! On installation, SUSE loads the special L1510S driver - GSM LG ELECTRONICS FLATRON L1510S, which has the settings of 1024x768 @ 73Hz. Using the "nv" driver, I have tried all the different hinting settings and altered the dpi. No luck! Then I repeated everything, setting the monitor to use the generic LCD driver, but at 60Hz. Anything above 60, gave me an "out of range" error message. Same! Next was a repeat of everything using the standard VESA, trying settings of 1024x768 at 75Hz, 70Hz and 60Hz. No! I then installed the NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA site, using YaST, and repeated all I had done with the nv driver. The fonts still looked bad. (Fuzzy edges and the loops in "e" and "a" filled in). So, I will have to keep trying. As I wrote to Bandipat, I use (or have tried), several other distros, and SUSE is the only one which gives me font trouble. I wonder if version 10 has better fonts? Cheers Keith