Re: Suse doesnt seem to like widescreen
- From: houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:24:45 +0200
Bruce wrote:
Hi - I have a new Dell 2007FPW widescreen monitor, with a native resolution<snip>
of 1680x1050. My difficulty is that when I try to run Suse 10.0 or 10.1 at
this resolution (or any of the other wide screen formats I have tried) the
screen doesnt fit the desktop any more. At 1680x1050 it looks nice enough
When I search online I dont find any useful answers, so I thought I would
try posting here to see if anyone else has encountered the same issue?
The issue is that the hardware makers often don't bother to put the
details of their hardware in their own harware, because if they would,
SAX would recognize it and directly use the correct settings. As that is
not the case, it must start guessing and will not do that perfectly.
Windows solves this with drivers for screens, something that is NOT
needed.
So what you must do is run sax2 manually. You can change the settings to
any dimension imaginable, including 1680x1050 or 1437x678822 if you
like. (I would advice against the latter one).
How to confiure the GUI.
This answers how to configure the GUI when an installation or an upgrade
does not show the GUI correctly. It will asume an installed system that
(as far as you know) works perfectly.
You will need root priveliges (know the root password) and the technical
settings of your screen, so get that manual. If you don't have the
manual, look it up. You are able tro post, so you have Internet
connection.
First do [CTRL][ALT][F1] to go to textmode. Don't be afraid, it is
nothing scary. As user type `root` and type your password for root.
Next type `init 3`. This will bring you to 100% textmode.
Now run the command `sax2` and you should be able to configure your
screen.
If you do not find your screen and/or do not know your settings, start
with the lowest ones and build your way up.
When you have set up your screen and tested it, you just run the
following command `init 5 && exit`. That will start up the GUI and if
OK, log you out as root.
If you still can't run the GUI but can run sax2 and the test at the end
of sax2, it ain't a standard X issue.
It can also be possible that sax2 does not work. Then you do `man sax2`
and read it. Realy read it, because there will be a quiz later.
Some ways to run SaX2 if the above does not work:
`sax2 -b /usr/share/sax/profile/SomeProfil`
Mainly for dual screen situations where the dual screen is not
recognised.
`sax2 -l` (Lowercase L not number one)
For the lower resolution to be default. This can be usefull with
newer screens that are not standard and did not bother to tell
your software about the size it can handle
`sax2 --vesa 0:1024x768@60`
Run screen 0 (the first screen, 1 is the second) in resolution
1024x768 at 60 Hz. Should be OK for most if not all LCD screens.
Run the above and configure your screen(s). If it still ain't working,
re-read the `sax2 man` page and try some of the other settings.
If it does work, do `init 5 && exit`.
Still problems? You can manualy configure it as well. Take a lot more
information, so get back and tell us what you have done, your videocard
and screen information, together with your SUSE version and wether or
not it used to run before and if you have done an update of your system
and if so, how.
Aditional information might be needed as well.
houghi
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America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
have tolerated the last eight years? -- Frank Zappa, in 1988
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