Intel i830 video not working in RC2

[gminnerup]

I don't have a monitor attached, only the built-in LVDS.

[gminnerup]

Thanks for your suggestion, oldcpu, but none of these worked (and yes, I'd been dropping into runlevel 3 all the time before that: some people actually benefit from the advice you and others have given them over the months since fleeing Redmond). Yet it is solved now, and you probably won't believe how I did it:

following no more than a hunch, I reinstalled for the third time, but this time I set the video to 1024x768 on the first screen of the installer (F3, VGA mode I think). Nothing else to be done later, everything beautiful...

This surely must be a bug???

[farcusnz]

but sax will still show something as a monitor. Make sure that it hasn't defaulted to a vesa lvds as it had done for me.
The fix you mention above had also worked for me which indicates you may be having the same problem. Which can be corrected post install i fmissed with the sax2 setting

[gminnerup]

Yes I know. But see solution above... ;-)

[TaraIkeda]

Has Sax2's GUI fully left us in RC2?
I hope its there, whoever suggested it be removed was a brainless twit seriously as I was NEVER able to get KDE4 to keep my desired resolution of 1024x768 as it fails to save my desired res and reverts to 800x600 leaving me to configure xorg like in Kubuntu.
I thought openSUSE was supposed to be easy, removing a useful tool is surely the work of a idiot.

[farcusnz]

it is still there but not in yast. Instead they have put it under system in kicker (on KDE4)

[TaraIkeda]

Originally Posted by farcusnz

it is still there but not in yast. Instead they have put it under system in kicker (on KDE4)

as long as they keep it I am cool, but seriously the idea of removing it must have been done by someone who does a lot of LSD.

[gminnerup]

Several YaST utilities can be accessed from various places, but the beauty of YaST has always been that it's a kind of one-stop shop for system configuration. I can't understand either why it's been dropped from YaST: offering it somewhere else is no excuse as it could be (as it always has been) elsewhere AND in YaST...
But I am downloading updates as we speak, including to YaST. Wouldn't be at all surprised to find it reinstated...
On a more cynical note, I've never ever been able to solve a single screen configuration issue with Sax2, that's on four different computers running openSUSE Gnome and KDE at different times, some laptops, some dual monitor setups, all different video cards. ALL issues had to be resolved either by hand-editing xorg.conf or various other tricks. So I can't say that, personally, I'd be missing it.

[Chrysantine]

Perhaps because it is NOT a YaST module but a seperate program?

Also it's not really needed anymore as auto detection in Xog should more or less do everything.

[gminnerup]

Well I think we know that "autodetection" doesn't always work...