Re: Newbie needs gentle help with video

From: Big Daddy (noway_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/22/03 

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 22:49:35 -0500

on Fri November 21 2003 9:27 pm, Harry decided to enlighten us with:

> Hi,
>
> OK, I've got the religion. But after fighting the OS/2 wars and
> earning a good living supporting Windows, I'm ready to move on. But
> my thinking cap is still in windows where to change the screen
> resolution, I right-clicked and selected a res from the properties
> and moved on.
>
> I installed SuSe 9 two days ago and have been farbling around
> without changing the screen res. From what I've read, I think there
> are some basic Linux/Unix concepts I'm not grasping. I can go one
> reading forever - and maybe not grasp these concepts. So, gentle
> people, I come humbly to you.
>
> Can someone - very gently - bring me up to speed - step by step.

You have 2 methods. First method is SaX2. You can run it by typing 'Sax2'
from either the 'Run Command' in the K-menu (assume you're using KDE) or a
terminal (any desktop), run YaST2 and click 'Hardware' and 'Graphics Card
and Monitor', or Kmenu->System->Configuration->SaX2. This is the utiliy to
setup all of your video as well as you keyboard and mouse for the X window
server in SuSE Linux.

The second method is (KDE again) Kmenu->Utilities->Desktop->Screen Resize
and Rotate. This requires that you initially setup SaX2 to to highest
possible resolution you wish to use. Then, you can set it to either that
resolution or something less within this utility.

When you set your video up in SaX2, remember to adjust your refresh rate by
changing the size of your desktop within the utility. You want a fairly
high refresh rate to avoid headaches and eye problems. My system is running
a 79MHz refresh rate.

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