I just got a Dell Inspiron 3252 and installed OpenSuSE LEAP 42.1. The desktop is configured with the default KDE manager. However, the screen resolution is only 1024 x 768. How do I change the screen to a finer resolution?
First, welcome to openSUSE Forums. This is likely due to the graphics driver in use, so you might want to tell us more about your graphics hardware. Post back with the output from the following commands…
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard
grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xrandr
I managed to get to a better resolution of 1440x900. However, I think both my monitor and video card can do a much better resolution.The outputs from /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard, grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and xrandr are shown below, respectively.
[suse@linux-rf8f:/home/local/PEOPLE/suse 34%] ~ /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard08: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.366] Unique ID: _Znp.rgd7EfOZQlC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Device Name: "Onboard IGD" Model: "Intel VGA compatible controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x22b1 SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x06f6 Revision: 0x21 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0x90000000-0x90ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0x80000000-0x8fffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xf000-0xf03f (rw) IRQ: 120 (561459 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000022B1sv00001028sd000006F6bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i915 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknownPrimary display adapter: #8[suse@linux-rf8f:/home/local/PEOPLE/suse 35%] ~ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log 41.669] (II) LoadModule: "glx" 41.676] (II) LoadModule: "intel" 41.678] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" 41.678] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" 41.679] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" 41.694] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" 41.697] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" 41.697] (II) LoadModule: "present" 41.949] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"[suse@linux-rf8f:/home/local/PEOPLE/suse 36%] ~ xrandrScreen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1440 x 900, maximum 32767 x 32767DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)DP2 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 256mm 1440x900 59.9*+ 75.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 60.0 720x400 70.1 DP3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)HDMI3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)[suse@linux-rf8f:/home/local/PEOPLE/suse 37%] ~
That is almost unreadable. You’ve used quote tags instead of code tags (’#’ icon in editor).
A bit of filtering, and I’ve gleamed that your graphics hardware is “Onboard IGD”, model “Intel VGA compatible controller”, (Vendor: pci 0x8086 ", Device: pci 0x22b1). The intel driver is in use as expected and xrandr reports ‘1440x900’ as the maximum (and current display resolution). It also tells us that you’re connected to DP2 (diplay port output). It might be possible to manually force a higher display resolution, but will depend on the capabiltiies of the hardware in question.
The following approach may work for you (assuming you know what disply mode should be possible)
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/8301/how-do-i-change-my-monitors-resolution/
This might be helpful to you as well
I apologize for that. I wasn’t aware the difference between using the code ] and CODE ]. BTW, is there a way to fix the post?
I sure will give this a try and report back. Thank you.