On 04/13/2015 10:15 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Again, I was not complete. I have two classes of laptops. One is the Dell 1721 that has been the major subject of my inquire. The other is an Alienware 18, a magnificent creature, though rather huge to carry around:-) It has 3TB of hard disk, 32TGB ram, dual Nvidia 880 graphics hardware and a 4 core (=> 8 threads) 4GHz Intel CPU. I was introduced to openSuse while trying to find a replacement for the Fedora distribution that I was finding to be increasingly not user friendly. I did try also to connect the Alienware, which has HDMI outputs, to my Dell WUXGA monitor, using two different HDMI to VGA adapters. This experiment also failed. I currently have, and am writing this email from, the Alienware driving a Acer HDMI resolution external monitor, again using "Unified Outputs". This works great! On boot, the 1721 garbling begins when the system detects the presence of the monitor. It does not even have to be turned on! After booting without the monitor, I attach the monitor, go through the GUI setup, and the garbling starts when I touch the "Apply" button. When I looked at the Xorg log files, I did not see the entries I expected from the additions made in the GUI. But I may have missed something there. I did not see the "EE" which I believe is the error flag. I have tried a lot of things, and am always afraid of making emails too long. Sorry again for the omissions. Thanks, Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org