David Rankin wrote:
As promised,
I'm reporting back on the install of 9.2 that replaced 8.2 on my dual boot XP/SuSE box. The install went flawlessly. I used the 'new installation' option with custom package selection. All hardware on the MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR was recognized and configured properly. Even the liteon CDRW and Sony DVDRW were configured.
The only glitch is the display resolution. I want 1600x1200. But SaX2 gives me 1600x1206 and the desktop is beyond the screen (like virtually). If I move the mouse to the top of the screen, the screen scrolls to show me the rest of it. (I still haven't figured out where to turn that off) 1280x1024 works fine.
The xdpyinfo utility will tell you a lot about your current configuration, most of it things you probably didn't want to know ;-) You are interested only in two lines of its output, and here is a grep enhanced regexp filter that will catch both of them: ~> xdpyinfo |grep -E \(dimension\|resolution\) dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (271x201 millimeters) resolution: 96x97 dots per inch Don't forget to "escape" (\) the parentheses and the bar in the grep expression! I've included the output of my system to guide you. The pixels divided by physical size, times 25.4 (to convert mm to in) must be equal to the resolution in dpi, eg. 1024*25.4/271 = 95.976 768*25.4/201 = 97.05 You could try shaving a couple of millimeters off the vertical size in SaX2 -- note this is the physical monitor geometry, not the stuff in the test. First, though, check to make sure the current geometry is actually what your monitor documentation states. These numbers may also be stated in /etc/X11/XFree86Config, in the "Monitor" section, option "DisplaySize". If so, and they do not match your true geometry, you could just edit that file and restart X, instead of having to go into SaX2.