Many thanks to those who replied & helped. I ended up reinstalling for a variety of reasons (including checking effect of various parms). But the solution from Jesus Garcia Grande did work. For anyone else using the SyncMaster 171S TFT LCD, my recommendation is to install using resolution of 800x600. When it comes time to set up the graphics card & monitor for KDE, then you can select the Syncmaster 4S (since the 171S is not in the list) to get KDE running at a beautiful 1024x768. The system, and the monitor, then switches between the modes quite gracefully. The install 800x600 is also used to display the boot/shutdown console, with the overlay splash screen. It seems the 171S can not sync properly to the console at 1024x768 and it looks terrible at that resolution but it looks great at 800x600. Great job SuSE. /Hans Hans Forbrich wrote:
Received & installed 8.2 Pro - very, very happy. Only 2 issues - one is Boot Up screen resolution. (Other will be posted separately)
The boot up screen is no longer the plain character mode console. SuSE puts up what appears to be a vt-100 style xterm in a minimum graphical mode. (Apparently you can put a splash screen image/logo on top of this to hide the boot process from exciteable users.)
My monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 171S LCD) is not happy with the bootup video mode - keeps displaying 'invalid signal', although it also displays the terminal and contents as well. The characters come through very fuzzy, and I suspect I'll go nuts if I need to boot -s.
During install, I needed to change the video resolution as the monitor did not cooperate with the default 1280x1024 (or higher???). It seems that the resolution I selected is now the default on the boot-term. So, I need to figure out how to adjust the resolution for this boot-up terminal emulator.
/Hans (I admit, I haven't RTFM for this yet - a few other crisis going on. TIA to anyone who answers, especially who points to the proper place in the manual.)
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