Hi guys. I’m new here and this is the first time I have ever been able to install opensuse on anything. To make a long story short I have managed to install this new release on one of my computers. Unfortunately my display only gives me two options with a 4:3 aspect ratio. I have looked for the hardware but I guess it doesn’t pick up the display or video card automatically so I’m not sure where else to look. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I’m having same issue with Asus X5DC (Sis 671/771 PCiE) laptop having only 640x480, and it’s really 1366x768.
I’m gona try something like described here next:
Add new screen resolution in Linux Mint - Linux Mint Community
Thanks for that. I don’t want to mess with it yet. I think I just need to install the drivers, I just can’t figure out how on this distro. Do you know what they use, is it a Debian or something else for example. I know it’s yast which I think was fedora. Just trying to get an idea. I have zorin on my second computer that I’m also testing, but that seems to keep on freezing on me a bit. I thought it was my OS, then I downloaded a few and was still having a similar problem trying to install anything. I changed HD, memory, motherboard and still not much. So I thought it was the cd rom, and used my usb cd rom, but still weird stuff with a whole different setup and distros. I finally read something about burning at a slower speed and turned off that uefi in the bios on this nano computer and it is where I have suse installed in. It seems to work fine, I just have to get the display going. By the way, no matter what computer I have always put opensuse in, I had never been able to get it installed so this is why I never used it until today. In any case I don’t know if it’s all the new linux stuff, but I am also having a hell of a time installing Ubuntu on that other computer, they just keep crashing on it and now I know it’s not the hardware as I have changed it. Okay maybe the old board was a bit old, I don’t know, they are both older boards. One is intel and one is amd so they are both different and I have downloaded both the 64 bit and 32 bit os’s. Just having the weirdest time with these. I found out that making a separate partition for the home directory pretty much didn’t allow me to install any other distro, so watch that for anyone else reading. That really screwed me up for a while. Do let me know if that works for you. Thanks.
No, that won’t work, since a low display mode like that is almost certainly due to the X-server using a basic framebuffer driver.
In general, if you are having display issues like this, examine/var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what display devices and resolutions are detected, and if you need further help with interpreting the log, please upload to SUSE Paste and post the link to it here. (Don’t forget to set the ‘Delete After’ to a reasonable value.)
It is also advisable to include details about your graphics chipset too
/sbin/lspci -nnk
or
/usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfxcard
Thanks, I think it complained about ‘no proper screen’ in xorg log- I’ll post details later when I have more time for it, annoying to use it @ 640 lol. Xrandr reports only 640 for it.
Is this due bug in detecting EDID info or something?
Well, it could be, but it is more likely that a basic framebuffer driver is in use. You’ll need to examine the Xorg.0.log to determine what kernel driver is being loaded for your graphics hardware.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out how to get the list in suse. Here is my information. I chose to leave it permanently to help along. That’s pretty neat, I have never seen that paste page sort of thing on anything.
http://paste.opensuse.org/8574219
Here’s the second part, hardware. I apologize if I don’t have things quite right as I’m just starting to use the sites here and well I’m not familiar with how things are here yet.
http://paste.opensuse.org/86657075
@efx:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD
6310] [1002:9802]
Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:a191]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
and the detected native display resolution is
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Printing probed modes for output DisplayPort-0
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806
-hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
+hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
+hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0 33.75 848 864 976 1088 480 486 494 517
+hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz e)
54.483] (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 489 492 525 -hsync
-vsync (31.5 kHz e)
54.486] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output HDMI-0
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): EDID for output VGA-0
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): Output DisplayPort-0 connected
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): Output HDMI-0 disconnected
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 disconnected
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
54.562] (II) RADEON(0): Output DisplayPort-0 using initial mode 1024x768
It is possible to override the EDID derived display modes, and add custom display modes, either dynamically via xrandr, or via the config files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. (There are numerous threads about how to do that if you care to search these forums.)
Thanks. I have no idea what EDID is but I’ll search. This reminds me of when I first took a look at linux where you had to fix the display after the install. I never did quite get that to work. I’ll see what comes up or just install zorin again. I just noticed xrandr doesn’t have any options, so I need to go to the conf file…what’s the command to edit that file here in suse? What editor is available here in suse?
Display detection is largely automatic these days, with communication between the graphics driver (via graphics chipset) and the connected display.
Extended display identification data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I just noticed xrandr doesn’t have any options, so I need to go to the conf file…what’s the command to edit that file here in suse? What editor is available here in suse?
That’s because you haven’t discovered/learned about its capabilities yet.
man xrandr
Take a look at this post where I’ve explained how to add a (valid) display mode and test it. You have to generate a compatible modeline (which can sometimes present a challenge in itself), and you have to alter the command to use your particular output device name eg LVDS, CRT-0, or whatever it is. You can get that from Xorg.0.log, or via ‘xrandr’ itself. Once you have a working modeline (that provides the desired displlay resolution), it can be added permanently via edits to the appropriate /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ config files.
Ok ,here’s the current situation.
-:~> xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 640 x 480, maximum 640 x 480
default connected 640x480+0+0 0mm x 0mm
640x480 73.0*
-:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 671MX [1039:0671]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-sis
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge) [1039:0003]
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:02.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS968 [MuTIOL Media IO] [1039:0968] (rev 01)
00:02.5 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 IDE Controller [1039:5513] (rev 01)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: pata_sis
Kernel modules: pata_sis, pata_acpi, ata_generic
00:03.0 USB controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 0f)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci
00:03.1 USB controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller [1039:7001] (rev 0f)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
Kernel modules: ohci_pci
00:03.3 USB controller [0c03]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller [1039:7002]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:05.0 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SATA Controller / IDE mode [1039:1183] (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:1cf7]
Kernel driver in use: sata_sis
Kernel modules: sata_sis, pata_acpi, ata_generic
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge [1039:000a]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge [1039:000a]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:0f.0 Audio device [0403]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Azalia Audio Controller [1039:7502]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:16f3]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1f.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] PCI-to-PCI bridge [1039:0004]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter [1039:6351] (rev 10)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:19e2]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AzureWave AW-NE785 / AW-NE785H 802.11bgn Wireless Full or Half-size Mini PCIe Card [1a3b:1089]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Kernel modules: ath9k
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
and Xorg log
http://paste.opensuse.org/77797433