Quoting BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net>:
On Friday 14 October 2005 09:32 am, jdesalvo@ydl.net wrote:
Greetings,
Have been trying for three days now to get the resolution on my 17" Apple Studio Display set properly under X11 and SUSE 10.
Joe, After starting sax2 to change the settings, did you find your monitor in the database or just choose one closest to yours? If your particular model is not in the database, that's ok, we can walk you through adding it later. For now, let's just see if we can get you going. Choose one of the Apple monitors closest to yours then check the Vertical & Horizontal scan rates to see how closely they match the specs on yours. If they are not right, then change them to match. Once that's done, you should be able to select the 1280x1024 setting that will fall within your specs ok. Be sure to select other sizes also, like the
1024x768, 800x600 & 640x480, so some of the games will find a screen they need.
Check all other settings, like graphics card, mouse, keyboard and 3D if you want it on. Now finalize, test, be sure to test, save and quit. That should get you there. Let us know if your monitor is not listed and once you get going, we'll go through adding yours to the database.
Lee
Lee, Thanks for your prompt reply. I should clarify that the Studio Display is an old CRT. For a couple of years Apple used the name Studio Display when also referring to LCD displays. Anyway... If memory serves, Sax2 selected the monitor. I tried changing the selection on my own a couple of times from APP to APPLE in the manufacturer list and to Studio Display, but that didn't seem to have an effect. And I think the Studio Display in the monitor list might refer to the LCD version. I tried changing the refresh rates, but when hitting the "Test" button (to test the display) the "test" always came back with a different scan rate. Baffling. For example, I'd select or indicate 75Hz, run Test, and the test screen would have 84Hz or some such setting. WTF? I've tried changing some of the other video settings or options, but frankly I don't understand half of them and there is no help for me to read there. The video card is AGP ATY Radeon 128 w/ 16M of video ram--the original one shipped with this G4 Sawtooth, and I've tried both the r128 driver and the fbdev driver. I'm not at my home machine now so I can't test some of the other things you suggest--the mouse and keyboard appear to function fine-- but will this evening. In the mean time, if you have additional tips/suggestions for me to try, I'd be very grateful. Thanks again for the help. Joe -------------------------------------------- http://YDL.net - The online community for Yellow Dog Linux users