Display Problems with SuSE 9.1

I have been researching this topic for several days now to no avail. I have a Dell CPx H500GT Laptop with the ATI Mobility M1 Video card. Here is my dilema, at the top of the display I have a broad white line that runs from side to side and approxiamtely about an inch down from the top. I have done everything that I can think of. I have edited the XF86Config file, I have tried different resolutions, colors, different manufactures in Sax2. I have consulted some friends who are Linux oriented than I am and they are loss for answers. I have gone to ATI website for answers and nothing there, and I even tried Dell with the drivers they provide and they did not work. By the way the only time that this white stripe is visible is using the GUI. It doesn't show up during boot, or in cmd line. This is a dual boot machine and it is not present in Windows 2000. The system has 192Mb's RAM, 8Mb's Video, P3 500. Hopefully this is sufficient information. Thanks for any help.

Sounds to me like a malformed Modeline.

If you checkout: http://web.archive.org/web/20020206190136/...lnetjunkie.net/

At the bottom you will find a configured XF86Config file for the ATI Mobility M1 Card here: http://web.archive.org/web/20020206190136/....net/XF86Config

Originally posted by Vir@s@May 3 2005, 01:21 AM
Sounds to me like a malformed Modeline.

If you checkout: http://web.archive.org/web/20020206190136/...lnetjunkie.net/

At the bottom you will find a configured XF86Config file for the ATI Mobility M1 Card here: http://web.archive.org/web/20020206190136/....net/XF86Config

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Well here is what I have learned thus far. When SuSE is being installed there is a resolution taskbar at the bottom that allows for changes. When I changed the option from the default 800x600 to 1024x768 that made the difference. But what I don't understand is why I was unable to change the resolution once the Os was installed. But regardless it is now working properly. Now I just have to learn how to network my SuSE server with my Windows boxes.

Actually you should be able to change the resolution using sax2 without any problem. I don't think you can't change it after the installation. When you select 1024*768 at the boot prompt it just changes the resolution it uses by default, not the ones available

Originally posted by Vir@s@May 3 2005, 09:24 AM
Actually you should be able to change the resolution using sax2 without any problem. I don't think you can't change it after the installation. When you select 1024*768 at the boot prompt it just changes the resolution it uses by default, not the ones available

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Right, that is what I thought also I even went to another person who knows alot more about the Linuix distro's than I and he was stunned also. Know I was able to change the resolution but I would a large white stripe about a half inch wide that would go from side to side of the display. But then I decided to try Mandrake, didn't like it and went back to SuSE 9.1 and a friend from school pointed out the options at the bottom, and that is what made the difference. I see that you are the admin of this forum so you might want to make a sticky out of this for future reference. Thanks for your help it is greatly appreciated.