Me too actually. I originally let atiupgrade build this package, before I realized that it didn’t make sense. Now it would just abort with a message that the chipset is not supported.
Thank you both deano_ferrari and please_try again! (but please_try_again, I must admit that I didn’t quite understand your first post:shame:, is that list of ati-cards something that you built up yourself, or did you get it from AMD/ATI?)
You both reassured me that using proprietary driver software for this old chipset (nv370, if I remeber right) is no idea.
I must tell that I can become quite slow in answering the next two weeks, my yacht shall be ‘dryset’ as we say in swedish. Don’t know the english expression (opposite to lauched), anyway it’s somewhat timeconsuming.
But in a way, and as a whole, I think I have got so much help I can get with this issue? -It was, as I explained in my first post, never a question of helping me configure my graphics. For the first time i three years I think I’ve succeeded fairly well, and this time without “copying & pasting” from old xorg.conf’s :).
It was merely a question of knowledge? “How does this work?”, “How does the graphics hardware communicate with each other, the operating system (udev-HAL) and with Xorg?” and perhaps finally “Is there anything I’ve missed her? F.i. a way to make X.org get better information from the hardware?”
I can only again express my thankfulness!
Lars
You’re welcome.
PS: I hope your yacht doesn’t stay dry-docked for too long 
Well, over the winter. In Sweden, opposite to the US people, we mostly dry dock yachts < 50 ft over the winter SSS-Varvet. It’s said that out yachts last longer that way, mine is f.i. 101 years old. I don’t know how you do in New Zealand 
(Thank’s for the english concept. In swedish it leads the thoughts to docking ships in ship yards, we mostly say ‘put/lift them ashore’.)
Wow, thanks for that link to the photos. Yeah, dry-docking really relates to larger vessels, small yachts often do get stored on trailers at nearby on-shore storage , much the same as you’ve shown. Of course, our winters are quite mild by comparison, so it is not uncommon for some yachts to remain moored in the water.
Hello Larsed. I hope You enjoyed on your yacht. I was reading this post and found that you successfully solve a problem with your monitor resolution. I have a problem with KVM switch causing an appropriate resolution of my monitor. I tried to edit a 50-monitor.conf file but failed. So I’d ask you to post your own configured files to show me a proper way for configuring those files.
Sorry on my bad english.
Regards
I don’t think there is very much you can do, except buying a better KVM switch if you can afford one.
KVM switch works well with Windows. I solved same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 editing xorg.conf file but opensuse 12.2 has a lot files I have to edit. So I think this can be solved same way.
If you already solved the problem, you can use the xorg.conf you wrote for Ubuntu - except for some FontPath - provided you use the same video driver. If you’re unsure, post the content of your Ubuntu xorg.conf and the output of this command under openSUSE:
$ hwinfo --gfxcard
in CODE tags, please!
Thanks for reply.
linux-676x:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
10: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: _Znp.5jENKKL4iYF
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "Intel G33"
Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
Device: pci 0x29c2 "G33"
SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x82b0 "P5KPL-VM Motherboard"
Revision: 0x10
Driver: "i915"
Driver Modules: "drm"
Memory Range: 0xfe980000-0xfe9fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xdc00-0xdc07 (rw)
Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xfe800000-0xfe8fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 42 (40025 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000029C2sv00001043sd000082B0bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
Driver Info #1:
XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel
3D Support: yes
Extensions: dri
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Primary display adapter: #10
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "bs"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
Modeline "1360x768_60.00" 84.75 1360 1432 1568 1776 768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
Modeline "1024x768_60.00" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1360x768_60.00" "1024x768_60.00"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Well Damke, I really must agree with the last answer from please_try_again.
If you have got a decent or good configuration of your graphics in Ubuntu, you can use it in your OpenSuse, provided both are installed on the same machine with the same monitor and use the same driver. -You simply copy the sections Device, Monitor and Screen from your Ubuntu xorg.conf and paste the in respectively /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf.
-Since I found a way to get a good “hand-made” graphics configuration in OpenSuse 12.2 I have also used it in OpenSuse 11.2 and Slackware 14.0, all three on the same machine.
Of course I could post my xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf to you, but there is one warning I must make: They suite my graphics card ATI Radeon X300-series and my** CRT-monitor Philips Brilliance 109P4 **using the ordinary radeon driver.
Besides I’ve got a problem that perhaps please_try_again can help me with? I’ve never used SUSE Paste? Tried to login with my forumID but the loginscreen closed before I could write anything, and I can’t write any ID in it? Can you please describe how I get in, and link the paste to for instance this thread? -Or if I could upload some files to Paste and link to them?
So, finally: If I get your help with SUSE Paste of course I can post my three files!
But if your Ubuntu is installed on the same hardware and, as please_try_again pointed out, you use the same driver you can make use of xorg.conf from there!
Or else, if you want to make a suitable config for your graphics in OpenSuse, I think you’ll have to do it the hard way? That is, it’s not really hard, but it takes a while and it is best if you’ve still got the specifications for your graphics card and monitor. Or else try to find them on internet. Once you’ve got them. it’s not very hard:). -If you’ve got your specs and want to, perhaps I can guide you somewhat on the way-
-If your unsure about your graphics card and your monitor, try the way please_try_again suggested:
# hwinfo --gfxcard and --monitor.
You can also use
# lspci
(I won’t go into a discussion about KVM-switches here, at least not about quality. Perhaps a notion though: I myself have got a DKVM-4K and for a longer period of time I thought it was the switch that in some way disturbed the autoconfiguration of my graphics. One day I simply bypassed it, reinstalled openSuse. And got the same poor configuration as before)
Best regards
Lars
PS. We must have written simultaneously Damke? -You cannot use my configurations, you’ve got an intel graphics card. Could not see if you tried
hwinfo --monitor
but as I can see from the resolutions I would make a guess that it’s a LCD-screen, perhaps modestly “wide”. Then you cannot use my monitor- or screen-values either.
-But as I said, can you get hand of your specs, I can try to guide you along. DS.
It’s easier to put everything in one file IMO. If /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, it will be used.
# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[939241.059]
X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
....
[939241.059] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Oct 9 14:29:55 2012
[939241.072] (==) **Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"**
[939241.072] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[939241.072] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
...
But I don’t know why you don’t have a driver specified in the device section of your xorg.conf under Ubuntu. You should normally have
Driver "intel"
in this section. I can not help with Intel cards though - don’t have any.
I don’t either.
I don’t know, really. I would just improvise. But someone will know for sure.
On 2012-10-10 17:36, Larsed wrote:
> Besides I’ve got a problem that perhaps please_try_again can help me
> with? I’ve never used SUSE Paste? Tried to login with my forumID but the
Last time I used it there was no login.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Thanks to both of You for help.
I’am Linux “novice” (If I may say so ) It’s the same PC, now Ubuntu and OpenSuse dualboot. When I connect PC directly to my monitor ( LG W1946S-BF LCD 19 native resolution 1360x768 ) I have no problem. But with KVM switch (I have to use it at work) I have only 1024x768. I was able to manually adjust the resolution using the instructions from one forum regarding the Xorg configuration file on Ubuntu 12.04 and I’m sure that I missed something as please_try_again noticed.
(“But I don’t know why you don’t have a driver specified in the device section of your xorg.conf under Ubuntu. You should normally have”).
But it works for me on Ubuntu. Now I have same problem with OpenSuse 12.2, there is no xorg.conf file I can edit. So I tried to configure those three files (50-device.conf 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf. as Larsed did ) and find myself in trouble, opensuse didn’t start. I returned the old files and until now, I have not managed to manually adjust the resolution. That’s why I wanted from Larsed to post “working files” that I would naturally configured according to the parameters of my PC. Certainly I left out something, maybe the order or syntax or something else.
" It’s easier to put everything in one file IMO. If /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists, it will be used."
Does this mean that I just need to paste my working “xorg.conf” into /etc/X11 folder ? I’ll try it at work today.
Again, thanks a lot and I hope that we will solve the problem.
Yes! You’ve got it right:)!
Does this mean that I just need to paste my working “xorg.conf” into /etc/X11 folder ? I’ll try it at work today.
Again, thanks a lot and I hope that we will solve the problem.
That’s what please_try_again meant!
I really can’t tell why your manual config of 50-device.conf, 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf didn’t work? (Right now I’m sitting in Slackware 14 and there the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d was empty from the beginning. But as I recall in Suse 12.2 it’s populated.)
But as “please” pointed out, you should have a driver/module for your graphics card specified in your 50-device.conf or your xorg.conf! It’s cruicial. From your # hwinfo --gfxcard I read it is an intel card Model: “Intel G33”. I’vee never used an intel graphics card myself but as I can read from intel(4): Intel integrated graphics chipsets - Linux man page and X.Org Wiki - IntelGraphicsDriver the “intel” driver should work. That’s also what “please” suggested. But in Xorg-wiki I can also read that this **driver does not support the GMA 500, found in various Atom-based designs. **The line “ASUSTeK Computer Inc.” rings a bell concerning Atom-based design in my head? Do you know if it’s Intel Atom?
Anyway, there is no harm in trying as you should have a driver specified in xorg.conf. If you use the full /etc/X11/xorg.conf that you copy from your Ubuntu
Add a line in the section
Section "Device"
.......
** Driver "intel"**
......
EndSection
If it doesn’t work, comment that line (Put a # in front of the line) and do another search for driver for your G33-card using the information from your
hwinfo --gfxcard
Well, it’s not a solution since I’m not used to Intelcards, but a suggestion.
Lars
I copied xorg.conf into a X11 folder and it works. Restarted several times to be shure. Now it normallly starts with monitor’s native resolution. I just wont to ask “please_try_again” to help me “fill” what I left out in my xorg.conf with proper information (because i read somewhere that wrong information in such files can cause damage to hardware). If xorg.conf is sufficient for normal monitor operation, then I’ll stay on this.
Thanks Lars.
It’s actually based on G31 chipset with Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (Intel® GMA 3100). I left my xorg.conf withot that section about intel driver specified and it works on opensuse.
Ok, Good that it works for you even without driver specification!
(Maybe it’s a mean rumor, but someone told me that those intel motherboard integrated graphics is a nightmare to configure. I hope it’s not true!)
I seems though that you now have got a decent xorg.conf that give you the resolutions you were used to from Ubuntu:).
Good Luck to you!
AFAIK xorg.conf doesn’t need to be complete, Xorg will get the missing info from what is in xorg.conf.d/.