On 2011/07/27 12:36 (GMT+0800) George Olson composed:
Just trying to get my new monitor set up. I have a samsung LED monitor, but the automatic installation just put in some kind of default setting.
How do I adjust the driver settings and find my new monitor to configure it correctly?
When you have common and unbroken hardware, automagic is supposed to produce ideal results without you trying to configure. You don't have one of the common and well supported gfxchips, so possibly you may not be able to. Your chipset is K8M890, which includes the "VIA Chrome9™ IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) core". I have no idea whether this has a supported native driver. If it doesn't, it means the standard VESA modes would be all that are available. AFAIK, there are no widescreen VESA modes. Even if there were, 1600x900 is among the newest and least likely to have VESA support. Absent exchanging your Samsung 1600x900 for a 4:3 or 5:4 aspect display that VESA supports, and absent a native driver for the VIA IGP (which there may be, I simply don't know), the simplest solution may be simply spending more money, to buy an ATI or NVidia PCIe card and install it. Then automagic should be all you need. If the motherboard is also new, an even better solution may be to exchange it for one with well supported onboard video (Intel, NVidia or AMD/ATI). Before doing anything more, provide us access to the output of the command 'lspci | grep VGA', and the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and do a little Googling to find out the status of your gfxchip under Linux, particularly which if any driver besides VESA supports it. Maybe that's what unichrome is for, and either it's not installed, or your chip is newer than the 11.4 unichrome driver supports. Doing 'zypper in xorg-x11-driver-video-unichrome' as root and restarting X or rebooting may actually be all you need to do. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org