I want to change the default resolution of 1280x1024 to 1024x768. Setting at boot using the space bar or the KDE display (personal settings) does not survive the next boot. In yast or yast2, hardware, there is no monitor selection (something wrong here?).
Using root, run level 3, the command sax2 --vesa 1024x768 does nothing.
or sax2 -m 0=fbdev does nothing.
I had no problem with previous suse releases. What am I missing?
I have seen such a post a number of times. The link to the Practical theory guide is really not that helpful. It does not tell you how to do something simple to make your graphic card work. I find this really not at the level of what opensuse should deliver (and I know that these forums are coming from dedicated people who wish to help - and I sincerely thank the time people take to try to address these issues). I have myself still similar problems: no way to make things work properly with an external screen, docking station is a nightmare, no way to make Xorg - configure work properly to have a decent xorg.conf, still my Xorg freezes about once a day and I have to push the power button and start all over again.
So what’s going on with the 11.3?
Sorry to be so negative, I shouldn’t be. But I have been with opensuse/suse for years and I am seriously thinking to switch to another distrib. Obviously this is not the fault of the many people who are trying to help on these forums.
So let’s ask a practical question related to the post : following the practical guide, how are we supposed to choose which driver to use? For example a GM45-intel, has intel or intellegacy and many others. Which one is the advised one for a good usage and no freezes?
Also is there a post on how to build a proper xorg.conf when Xorg -configure delivers something which does not work at all?
thanks
(and apologies again, but maybe this would trigger some more general post on simple solutions for such problems which should never happen in the first place for such a modern distribution)
The simple answer is to try each driver mentioned in the guide for your card/chipset, and choose the best one for your h/w configuration and your preferred display resolution.
Specifically on Intel GM45 chipset, openSUSE 11.3 should install “intel” driver by default and that’s the one I would recommend. However if it fails, or you must have Flash full-screen but that freezes, you should try the “intellegacy” driver (no guarantees). If that works to your satisfaction, use it until the “intel” driver’s bug is fixed. See this thread and my post #5 for how to implement “intellegacy”.
BTW, I’m using “intellegacy” on the notebook I am posting this from.
I want to change the default resolution of 1280x1024 to 1024x768. Setting at boot using the space bar or the KDE display (personal settings) does not survive the next boot. In yast or yast2, hardware, there is no monitor selection (something wrong here?).
Are you using the proprietary nvidia driver, or the opensource nv driver for example? The proprietary driver includes the nvidia-settings GUI utility, which can be used to set the resolution. It is possible to create a mimmal /etc/X11/corg.conf file with a line to set the preferred display mode permanently. Read my post in this thread.
Well, thanks but that’s hardly something I can imagine doing since most of the problems I have are either happening with all drivers anyway (the fact I cannot save any of the settings etc) or for the freeze it takes 4-5h to get there…
Indeed I just switched back to intellegacy (I had that one before) since “intel” does not seem to offer a better management of the resolution, lid closing, dock station etc issues, and on top of this it does the freezing thing…
Thanks I’ll test intellegacy for the next few days to see if this improves on at least the freezing part.
Does not solve other issues, but that’s up for other posts (for which I didn’t really get much input but I believe this is because it is not an easy thing - all was working well in 11.2… hence my temptation to go to other distribs now)
After stumbling across the same problem with SuSE 11.4 and trying to figure it out on a standard DELL hardware, I found there is a “Save as Default” button at the bottom left side of
“Start -> Applications -> Configure Desktop -> Hardware -> Display and Monitor -> Size and Orientation” dialog.
Pressing “Apply” button only stores it only for the session.
