Dave wrote:
I am so happy with 11.1 that I decided to install it on an older Dell Latitue X200 laptop. The install went smoothly until I got to the configure hardware section. I did not do my homework as well as I should have before starting the install or I would have known this laptop uses a display resolution of 1024x768. Instead at the original startup screen for the install I opted to use the 800x600 resolution that openSUSE had choosen. Needless to say but when I try to start X at 800x600 it blows up forcing a reboot.
I am now at the point that I start up and go to init 3. From there I start sax2 but have so far been unable to get sax2 to use any resolution other that 800x600. I read the man pages for sax2 but didn't see a switch to force a specific screen resolution. I even deleted all of the xorg.conf files but sax2 still used 800x600 the next time I started it.
How can I get sax2 to use 1024x768 to configure the xserver?
Thanks,
Dave
Several thoughts: (1) post the output of the following commands run in a terminal: lspci grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf We must first determine what hardware you have in the laptop and what driver you should be using. (2) once we get the right driver installed, then do (as root from init 3) sax -r -m 0=<drivername> I bet when you check the driver you currently have installed it is 'fb_dev' which is the God Awful 'frame buffer device'. If you have ATI hardware, use the "radeon" driver to start with. If you have nvidia, use the "nv" driver to start with. Then we can talk about installing the actual fglrx or nvidia driver. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org