i just got my new Notebook (Asus V1Sn) with the pretty resolution of 1680x1050.
No i tried to install OpenSuse 11 in a virtual Machine. The installation went very well and the system runs fast.
But i have a problem to set the resolution to 1680x1050 for fullscreen mode…
I changed the Monitor to LCD 1680x1050@60Hz an the resolution even to 1680x1050. But if i run the Test, it displays a resolution of 1600x1024. The Screen is centered and has to black bars right and left.
Does someone have any idea how to fix this problem?
Are you sure the vmware video driver (it’s installed with the tools) supports this resolution?
Which method are you using to try to change it? Sounds like sax2 (the YaST Graphics Card module). Do you know how to manually change the X-server control file? Why don’t you post back here the contents of that file, it’s /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I’m sure that the vmware supports the resolution because for testing purpose, i installed Kubuntu 8 KDE4 Remix and it had no problem with the wsxga+ resolution in fullscreen mode.
Here is the code from my xorg.cfg
Unfortunetly i’m pretty new to Linux / OpenSuse so i’ll first have to figure out, how to change with something without the Gui
if i change to fullscreen my desktop i get a grey bar on the right side. But it seems that just the Desktop i limited to this bar because if i maximize a programm (e.g. Firefox) i takes the whole screen.
On the second Image you have to look at the right bottom corner…
i changed the location of the Panel to the right side of the display (it layed over the gray bar) and changed it back to the bottom of the screen and suddenly it sized it self to the full width of the screen. Then i changed the background image and it had the same effect that it suddenly stratched to the full width.
Great! I suppose if it’s fixed, however it happened, best to leave it be. However . . .
Looking at your xorg.conf file, I think your “display size” is off relative to your resolution. The resolution of 1680x1050 is a wide-screen aspect ratio of 1.6. But the display size shown is 1.3. Under the monitor spec in sax2 (YaST graphics card module), there is a tab for display size. You can provide a diagonal measure, aspect ratio, or the vertical/horizontal dimensions. Sax will calculate the remaining values based upon what you enter (i.e., it will calculate dimensions based on the diagonal or the reverse). The aspect ratio is your resolution ratio.
