Hello, Dne 12. 10. 18 v 0:28 Fraser_Bell napsal(a): [...]
In my case, which is somewhat unique, it happens because I am using an older laptop with a shattered screen as my desktop machine. I have a large Acer external monitor attached to it with a Wide-Screen aspect that does not get detected properly in the case of the installer. Works just fine once installed, though.
I see, so this seems to be related to the dual-head setup. YaST currently does not allow to change the screen resolution nor to configure the dual-head directly. The installation system already includes the "xrandr" command line tool, but that is difficult to use, that's not an option for newbies. But we could use an existing GUI tool for that, I found out that we have "lxrandr" tool in the distribution. It allows switching the screen resolution in a user friendly way. For resizing the YaST window we can use the "wmctrl" tool, see item 6) below. To include the tools in the installer and test them manually follow these steps: 1) Boot the Leap 15.0 installation with this extra boot option (internet access is required): info=https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/67301180 This paste includes a list of packages added to the installation system. Instead of this "info" option you could write all that "dud" options, but that would be annoying. This is a shortcut. 2) Confirm downloading not signed packages (linuxrc cannot verify the checksums, but this is safe as the packages are downloaded from download.o.o using the secure HTTPS protocol). 3) When YaST displays the first dialog (language and license) press the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X key combination to open an xterm window. 4) Start "lxrandr" from the terminal. 5) Now you should be able to set the screen resolutions and configure the monitors. I have tested it in a VirtualBox VM where it is difficult (not possible) to simulate a real dual-head setup. But I was able to change the screen resolution. According to this [1] screenshot it should be also possible to enable screen mirroring or to switch between the laptop built-in LCD and the external monitor. 6) However, after decreasing the resolution the YaST window became cut-off. I guess after increasing the resolution there will be black borders. And because YaST is running in full-screen mode you cannot resize it using mouse. But you can do it manually, from the xterm run: wmctrl -r YaST2 -e 0,0,0,<width>,<height> Replace <width> and <height> with the real screen resolution selected in the lxrandr tool. Please test it, if that works for you we could possibly include the tools directly in the installer and add a new button like "Screen Configuration" into the very first dialog to start the "lxrandr" tool. And possibly we could run the "wmctrl" command automatically after "lxrandr" is closed. Ladislav [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/259785/where-does-lxrandr-save-its-display-c... -- Best Regards Ladislav Slezák Yast Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org