On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:10 pm, NSK wrote:
Hi, I am trying to set up SUSE Pro 9.3 to work with the TFT WXGA 1280x800 (16:10) screen of an Acer TravelMate 2303 laptop.
The problem is that although I configure X to use 1280x800 via SaX2, KDE (and GNOME) start in 1024x768. I once managed to make KDE work at a physical resolution of 1024x768 with a virtual resolution of 1280x800, but of course this is not what I want. Because the screen is 16:10 and 1024x768 is 4:3, whatever is shown on the screen under SUSE is distorted and reading is not comfortable.
SaX2 does not seem able to solve my problem, and xf86config does not include 1280x800 resolution in its resolution selection menu. Therefore I should edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually.
Why, if sax2 (you say) has configured the screen to 1280 x 800 (that seems to me to be a weird size)... would not the XF86Config file have that setting in it???? I think you need to find the reason for that. If the setting you want isn't in the config file, then nothing is going to use something different than what *is* in the config file.
I posted my /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you want to see it: http://nsk.wikinerds.org/blog/index.php?p=160
If it of any relevance, during the initial installation of SUSE I chose the 1024x768 resolution from the menu, because there was no 16:10-compatible resolution available in the menu. The graphics card is 32MB. I don't know the screen's horizontal and vertical refresh rates.
-- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org