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.)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 April 2003 09:55 am, 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.)
At the start of the installation screen press F2 (I think that's correct) and this will give you an option to set the resolution for the screen. This should be done during the initialization of the install process. If you're having problems after you've installed the OS and want to set this permanently I'll have to do a little background on this and get back - I'm in a rush right now and don't have time to look at it. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+nugG7WVLiDrqeksRAk6cAJ9pBi8zOMWe8xXGfv7CvYaFaklBYQCgvMgu syKDF5AcYwFgxyMyYbFVyxY= =20dL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At the start of the installation screen press F2 (I think that's correct) and this will give you an option to set the resolution for the screen. This should be done during the initialization of the install process. If you're having problems after you've installed the OS and want to set this permanently I'll have to do a little background on this and get back - I'm in a rush right now and don't have time to look at it.
Yes, at the beginning of the install process, I ended up using F2 to change the value from 1280x1024 to 1024x768. The original value did not play nice wit the SynMaster 171S Now that I've installed, I'd like to change the value again to something my monitor can handle. Are you saying I can do this change at the install screen as well without reinstalling? Thanks for looking and replying. /Hans
On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:56, Hans Forbrich wrote:
At the start of the installation screen press F2 (I think that's correct) and this will give you an option to set the resolution for the screen. This should be done during the initialization of the install process. If you're having problems after you've installed the OS and want to set this permanently I'll have to do a little background on this and get back - I'm in a rush right now and don't have time to look at it.
Yes, at the beginning of the install process, I ended up using F2 to change the value from 1280x1024 to 1024x768. The original value did not play nice wit the SynMaster 171S
Now that I've installed, I'd like to change the value again to something my monitor can handle. Are you saying I can do this change at the install screen as well without reinstalling?
On the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (or maybe /etc/lilo.conf if lilo instaled) at the line that look like this below: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a change the value vga to the one you like from this table: Resoultion in pixel Color depth | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 -----------------+------------------------------------- 256 (8bit)| 769 771 773 775 32000 (15bit)| 784 787 790 793 65000 (16bit)| 785 788 791 794 16.7 Mill.(24bit)| 786 789 792 795 I change the value to 791 (1024x768) but the image with the progress bar didnt display. Only i can see the boot messages. But it changes my resolution.
Thanks for looking and replying. /Hans
I Hope it helps you ;) Jesus Garcia Grande
On Thursday 17 April 2003 16:38, Jesus Garcia Grande wrote:
On the file /boot/grub/menu.lst (or maybe /etc/lilo.conf if lilo instaled) at the line that look like this below:
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a
change the value vga to the one you like from this table:
Resoultion in pixel Color depth | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 -----------------+------------------------------------- 256 (8bit)| 769 771 773 775 32000 (15bit)| 784 787 790 793 65000 (16bit)| 785 788 791 794 16.7 Mill.(24bit)| 786 789 792 795
I change the value to 791 (1024x768) but the image with the progress bar didnt display. Only i can see the boot messages. But it changes my resolution.
Jesus Garcia Grande
Do you mean you changed this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a To this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=791? Jerome
I change the value to 791 (1024x768) but the image with the progress bar didnt display. Only i can see the boot messages. But it changes my resolution.
Jesus Garcia Grande
Do you mean you changed this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a To this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=791?
Exactly. The difference between the two values is that de upper is in hexdecimal code and lower in decimal one. But its works. The table i wrote was copied from de suse knowledge databese, searching the keyword framebuffer.
Jerome
-- Jesus Garcia Grande
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:44, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Thursday 17 April 2003 09:55 am, 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.)
At the start of the installation screen press F2 (I think that's correct) and this will give you an option to set the resolution for the screen. This should be done during the initialization of the install process. If you're having problems after you've installed the OS and want to set this permanently I'll have to do a little background on this and get back - I'm in a rush right now and don't have time to look at it.
HTH, Curtis.
If I may make a suggestion. I've done this on my system since 7.1 On the boot parameters line add an entry like this: vga=ask That will instruct lilo (grub) to prompt you for the resolution. I've done this to determine both: if the highest setting works, and if it's usable (without being too small). After a test I edit my line to read something like vga=10 that puts it in 160x50 mode. Small size but it provides more real estate for viewing in rl 3... THe same steps can be used to specify a desired resolution... Pagan - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold AKA Pagan pagan@nordaki.net http://www.nordaki.net/~pagan (L)ICQ Number: 171264067 Distro: SuSE Linux Professional Registered Linux User:216397 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+n3et9EKgVX3zIJ4RAqwTAKCEUzIN27addZ/9/ySe7s7Pmr6exACgjBZM gqgXa/YosVPnoZyOSCjdCt4= =JDvv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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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