This is an odd problem - like most of my openSuse problems, a minor irritation. But it shouldn’t be there…
I’m using a laptop with an external monitor, all configured using the nVidia one-click drivers and am running KDE 3.5 on opensuse 11.0 32-bit. So far, so good. Everything works perfectly when the external screen is attached. BUT…when I boot the laptop on its own, the resolution changes - it appears to default to the external monitor’s lower resolution. This means that the carefully-arranged icons move about (despite being locked). The resolution changes to the correct one when the alptop is then restarted with the external monitor attached.
Now the really weird bit - this doesn’t happen when I log in as root!!! But when I check the nVidia settings, they appear to be identical whether I use root or my normal user login.
I have tried SaX in the past, but it destroys my video settings and I only get a standard black terminal screen.
Does anyone have any ideas? By the way, if you ask for any technical/system info, I’d appreciate some guidance on how to obtain it. I’m pretty experienced with PCs but don’t know the minutiae of hardware config.