OpenSuSE 11.2 - Sometimes picks wrong resolution on startup

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#1

I’m running OpenSuSE 11.2 with an Nvidia GeForce 8200 on board graphics card and am running the drivers installed from the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run which I obtained from the Nvidia web site. I also have this vga directive on the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
vga=0x346

Yet, sometimes when the system starts up it will go into 640x480 mode instead of 1680x1050. If I shutdown and restart a few times it will eventually come up in the proper resolution. Any thoughts?

Regards,
Brad

#2

Try making sure your monitor is on first before turning on your computer. I’ve found that the auto-detection of the monitor resolution fails if the monitor isn’t on… (hope it’s simple as that for you)

#3

Thanks linuxvinh. I tried that too. Yesterday

  • I uninstalled the drivers that I downloaded from the nvidia web site
    *rebooted (I was booted into a non-gui mode after uninstalling the nvidia drivers)
    *ran sax2 -r
    *let OpenSuSE revert back to the generic driver
    *rebooted
    *used the drivers from the SuSE one-click install site
    *rebooted
    *ran sax2 -r

That resulted in a much more detailed xorg.conf file. I’ve been using this config for about a day and so far so good. I’m in an optimistic, but waiting state.

Thanks for the suggestion.

#4

Thoughts:

  • Have you tried it without an xorg.conf?
  • Did you run nvidia-settings?
  • Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for anything that might indicate a problem.
#5

Didn’t try without an xorg.conf. I did use nvidia-settings (from the drivers from the nvidia site) to generate the xorg.conf file. Once I switched to the nvidia drivers from the SuSE web site (NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE) it seems to be behaving itself. I did this because there was a recommendation in the nvidia linux forum to use vendor specific drivers when possible for better integration with the distro.