On 07/20/2011 09:13 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/07/20 21:01 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
It's an LG Flatron LCD monitor, the model number of which slips my mind and is written on the back in letters too small to read, even when I put on my glasses.
With the previous board, i used the display with 1280x1024. My fallible memory of the refresh rate is 72, but it could well have been 60 or something else. I don't attach much importance to the refresh rate (all the usual rates are well above the flicker threshold), but I would like a higher resolution, as I had with the now defunct board.
Some displays provide broken information to the driver via the EDID service. Try editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf so that it reads as follows, than restart X to see if that's all that's required:
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Default Monitor" Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" EndSection
If it doesn't work, provide us access to the resulting /var/log/Xorg.0.log so we can look for reasons why not. That was an adventure. After changing the file, I rebooted (CTRL-ALT-Backspace didn't restart X).
Am 20.07.2011 21:45, schrieb Stan Goodman: this is normal behaviour in OS11.4 (changed from earlier versions) so people don't accidentally "zap" the X server. Pressing CTRL-ALT-Backspace twice will do the trick (unless there is another error)
The list of available monitor settings was much expanded, including one for 1280x1024x32 (labeled 31B), which I chose. This got me a warning that this is an invalid designation. That didn't surprise me, because the setting the system has been choosing for itself is given as 31A, which I was choosing previously, only to be greeted by the same rejection, and the system chose it anyway.
Letting the system choose its own settings again, it chose the easy way out by booting to level 3, even after I rebooted and specified "5" at the first graphic screen. In level 3, I went again to the file I had just edited, and removed the changes I had made. We are back again in level 5.
this confirms to me that Felix is right that for some reason the EDID information of your monitor is not passed to the computer correctly.
I've extracted the Xorg.0.log file that you asked for, but I haven't yet installed an ftp client on this machine, so I can't upload it for your inspection, and it's two large (26kB) to send to the list. Unfortunately, the lines are not date/time-stamped, else I would know how to truncate it. If you can tell me how to define a short part that you want to see, I could send it now in a message. Else it will wait for tomorrow (?), when I may have FTP installed.
just upload the whole file, AFAIK it only contains info from the latest X start. Mine is actually over 30k large /k.-h. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org