On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:43, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
Following your advise, I found a size of 1024x768 in "Size & Orientation". The tool gives me the choice between this value and "Disabled", but 1600x900 is not available. So I selected "Disabled" (whatever that means), but that did not help. After closing the tool and recalling it, the old value of 1024x768 appeared again.
Now, since SaX2 has been abolished, there is obviously no way any more to set up the correct size. Obviously, Suse is no more reliable. Perhaps, I should try a different distro.
Don't discount Felix's advice... I was just suggesting we start simple... sometimes the solution is simple. Another distro won't help you. ALL top distros will give you similar results because they all use the same autodetect for X resolutions. If it fails in openSUSE, it's quite likely to fail in the rest. You cannot claim wildly that "obviously Suse is no more reliable" because this is not an openSUSE specific issue... it's an issue with X not being detected correctly.. this is NOT something unique to openSUSE. What video card does your laptop have? What video driver are you using? Generally if you've only got 1024x768 then the install routine didn't detect something correctly Felix asked for the extra info you have to provide to take this to the next step. My guess is something went wrong in the install... that laptop should generally work fine with whatever Linux you install on it. SAX2 did a great job back when X wasn't able to detect things.. now it's generally redundant because xorg.conf is depricated.... as in it's obsolete. SAX2 was created because there was nothing at the time to set up X.. now there is.... Yes I know, there are cases where an xorg.conf is still needed, but they are uncommon. I honestly don't think a SAX2 solution is right in this case (of course I could be wrong)... I'd guess that once it's sorted, the X autodetect will do its job and your X resolutions will be what they should be. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org