Hey all,
I have 11.2 installed on my laptop but have a bit of an issue.
When I boot it normally, it will not use my full screen, instead it only uses about a 5"x5" box in the center and displays there,
but when i boot into failsafe, it uses the full screen.
Any ideas?
Its a laptop.
What video chip in the machine?
Failsafe uses the vesa driver i believe.
Im not sure, it is on an integrated video unit.
the Intel i845 i believe.
Open a a console window and become root by
su -
As root show output of
lspsi
this will list all pci devices.
It may be useful to see what the difference is between a normal boot and a failsafe boot on your PC.
Please post the contents of your menu.lst file to New - Pastie (and provide us with the website/URL location) so we can see the difference between a normal boot and a fail safe boot.
You can do that by running:
su -c 'cat /boot/grub/menu.lst' > bootfile.txt
and enter root password when prompted and then open bootfile.txt with a text editor and copy and paste the contents to New - Pastie and post here the URL/web site location.
Please also advise use what graphic driver you are using in a normal boot. There is advice here explaining to you how to do that: Post 14 - How to determine what graphic driver is loaded.
The device is the Intel 82845G/GL
I found the .rpm file with the proper driver for it, Ill give it a shot when I get home, the battery died and I dont have the power cable.
This does not make much sense to me.
The rpm that comes with openSUSE: xorg-x11-video-driver has the “intel” driver , and hence you should have the driver ALREADY installed.
Please be VERY CAREFUL as to what you install. You may be making a mistake.
Just tried the .rpm which I got from the Intel website, no luck, if i go into the ‘configure display setting’ in my bottom panel it says unknown in red at the top.
And as far as that command, it returns a No such file in directory.
I dread to think what has been messed up as a result of this attempt which (without more detail) I believe to have been ill advised.
Copy and paste that command (don’t try to retype it) into a terminal, as a regular user, where that terminal has just been opened (and hence it is in your /home/daredeval directory). The file will be there. That command works on ALL openSUSE versions.
su -c 'cat /boot/grub/menu.lst' > bootfile.txt
Once the command is complete, if in gnome type:
gedit bootfile.txt
and if in kde type
kwrite bootfile.txt
and then copy it to: New - Pastie and don’t forget to copy the resultant URL and post here.
This is basic Linux stuff … so please just have patience and keep trying and be assured that it DOES work.
Here it is:
#961094 - Pastie](http://www.pastie.org/961094)
Is there some reason you have so many kernels installed???
It looks like you are someone that likes to press buttons. 
With respect to boot codes, I note this:
My guess it is likely either “highres=off” or “x11failsafe” that enables your “failsafe” kernel(s) to boot, while the one’s without that boot code do not. I recommend you test that hypothesis / guess of mine. In the very first boot/splash menu (where you select the kernels upon boot) select a normal (non-failsafe) kernel to boot, and type: highres=off x11failsafe
… such that will show up on the options line and there will be a space between the 1st letter of highres and the “5” in vga=0x305. Do they boot now to full screen ?
If that is the case, this is a driver problem and you need to tell us what driver is in use when you get the 5x5 screen and what driver is in use when you get the full screen. There is advise on how to do that here :
Please read both the above posts and then please tell us what graphic driver is in USE when you get the 5x5 and what one is in use when you get the full screen.