My 11.4 installed with the resolution set at 1600x1200. But I need 1680x1050.
There is no longer a setting in Yast to set this. And sax2 is gone. And I don’t see an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. So how do I change this?
Also, it might be an issue with the NVidia driver that I had installed, but I guess is now toast.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi,
You can change the resolution via system settings in kde and in control center in gnome.
Since I can only log into it remotely, what is the command line command to launch these?
I found it gnome-control-center. But if used remotely, it detects the properties of my remote display. I need to change this on the console, which presents me with a totally illegible and unusable login screen.
So what does one do?
Arf! I don’t know remotely how you should do it… sorry.
Hi
So your logging in to a remote system that you have installed 11.4 and the screen isn’t working for your desktop? You tried to install the nvidia driver as well?
Can you confirm, I’m guessing that since you can ssh in the remote machine can connect to the internet?
I can log in remotely. Everything works so far. But I can’t log in at the console except in init 3 mode.
There is no real NVidia driver yet. They have some opensource clone installed called nouveau. And yes, I can connect to the Internet.
It used to be that you could run sax2 which started its own X server. That is no longer available.
Hi
When you say login at the console, you mean on the physical machine? What desktop are you running?
Yes. the monitor connected to the physical machine. Since I can’t get past the login screen, I assume it is gnome, which I last used under 11.3. The monitor shows a fractured background, the login boxes, which can be typed in, but display nothing, and nothing else other than some lines that are where the usual session selection stuff is.
If one cannot set up the X parameters from the command line, something is very rotten in 11.4.
a) If you install the nv driver from nvidia, maybe you should add nopat to grub’s menu.lst
b) You still can create your own xorg.conf (maybe you have a backup of an old one)
c) See script in this post Driver is under ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/
I have a GTX 285. None of the drivers seem to match this. My German is not very good to understand what is happening in the script.
How do I add nopat to the grub menu? Do you mean as a command line argument?
I added the NVidia FTP site to the repository. Now when I look, it says that I have the GFXG02 drivers installed, and the correponding X11 NVidia driver. I did not do this after the update.
Thanks, but this should not be so hard,
Jim
Hi
OK, all you need to do is add the command nomodeset to the GRUB boot options, that should get you to the desktop running the old nv driver. Then can take it from there.
Yep, that’s what he mean. 
Eureka! Thanks Aneyer. So Yast switched the drivers to the NVidia ones, and I put nopat on the options line at boot, and the desktop works. But is the default 11.4 background a bunch of green vertical bars that smash up the SUSE logo? Aside from that, things are working.
Hi
@jarome, that’s the new look desktop… 
klapp klapp
So, when I went into software management and selected NVidia, the drivers were installed. I updated them, and my desktop now works. Eureka! Thanks aneyer. But I still had thought it was screwed up because of the awful striped background. I cannot figure out how to change it. There is no right-click setting in KDE4. And, the system settings/desktop has themes, but I cannot find a way to change the desktop background.
Any ideas?
On 03/11/2011 03:36 AM, jarome wrote:
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> is the default 11.4 background a bunch of green vertical bars that smash
> up the SUSE logo?
see, we need to start counting the number of times that ‘fancy’ 11.4
background gets seen as a graphics problem!
not cool!!
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Not only is it not cool, it makes it very hard to do any work because the semitransparent objects are cursed with this.
And I finally figured out how to change this. You have to right-click and pick “Configure Search and Launch.” Why would anyone think this was something related to desktop settings?
But I can no longer use my photos as a wallpaper using this tool. Any suggestions?
On 03/11/2011 03:36 PM, jarome wrote:
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> But I can no longer use my photos as a wallpaper using this tool. Any
> suggestions?
in KDE (i didn’t go back to see what you are using):
-right click desktop
-pick “Desktop Settings”
-select “Wallpaper”
click and spin the “Type” and other settings there until you have
something you like…LOTS to choose from…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11