A few days ago I bought an unexpensive computer with integrated video and sound. The problem is that I have a 19’’ widescreen monitor and I haven’t been able to make suse 11.1 identify my preferred resolution (1440x900) correctly.
Whenever I try to set the card & monitor using yast (sax2), it identifies the resolution as 1400x1050 even though I explicit selected the correct settings. Whenever I try to run xorgconf as root, I am able to correct the setting and get the monitor, but it erases my keyboard and mouse settings (which I dunno how to manually configure them editing xorg.conf). So I end up with either a bad resolution and good mouse and keyboard configuration or with a good resolution and bad mouse and keyboard configuration.
Does anybody have any clue on how to solve it?
thanks in advance!
I have an onboard intel G33 on a 22" monitor. It can properly detect the resolution using the lcd option in sax2.Or to properly detect the monitor’s identity (model) I use the monitor cd in sax2. Additionally you may have to input the exact screen “x” & “y” dimension/measurement etc in sax2. Try to read the monitor’s specs/manual and put the information needed in the right place in sax2. Hope it will also work for you. If you don’t have the monitor’s manual at hand use google to find one.
I thought it was the video board because the monitor was working properly under my last computer configuration. The problem is that I can’t remember what I did in order to get the monitor working properly on my last machine - and I lost the monitor’s cd either…
I’ll try to set manually the monitor’s resolution and check if it will work.
first thing I had my kbd and mouse settings as I wanted them then I got to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and just deleted anything that hasn’t to do with 24bit colors and 1440x900 resolution. I have deleted all the lines that actually told me to not do that
Just hope that neither yast and sax2 erases my hand made file. Any clues on how not to get sax2 generating a new file whenever I need to change a setting?
