On Wednesday 01 December 2004 2:29 pm, Michael Fischer wrote:
Hi all. This happened shortly before swapping out a Dell P991 monitor for a Samsung SyncMaster 955df. Both monitors have the same difficulty. Sax2 let me set up the Samsung at 1024x768, which is fine, but I always end up with 640x480.
Michael
SUSE Pro 9.1, SUSE 9.2 KDE Live CD and SUSE Pro 9.2 all have the same problem with detecting Samsung Syncmaster monitors. Sax seems to default to the Syncmaster 4S which can do 640x480 pretty well I guess. Switch to a console screen (ctrl+alt+F1-6) login as root and do an 'init 3'. Run 'sax -l' (that's an el not a number 1) and configure. Especially the monitor. Make sure you save the final configuration. Then do an 'init 5' and you should be good to go... until the next time you mess with Sax and you forget to make sure the monitor is correct. Under 9.1 I went and changed the Syncmaster 4S's definition in the monitor DB to the 955DF so I didn't have this issue all the time. Thanks for reminding me to get this entered at www.suse.de/feedback. Stan