Screen resolution is too low

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Hi everyone.
I have finally been able to migrate from Ubuntu to SuSE, and I’m very pleased.
Anyhow, I’m in a tough spot as the current maximum Screen Resolution is 1024x768, and I’m used to 1280x1024, I can’t seem to figure out why it is so low.

My computer:
OpenSuSE 11 KDE4, Windows XP, Windows 7 (tripleboot)
800MHz CPU AMD Duron “Spitfire”
1280MB RAM, A-Data and some other company
along with
32MB S3 Savage4 Graphics card

It isn’t the best computer, but it is what I have, could it be my Video Card which affects the settings, though I have 1280x1024 on both Windows 7 and XP, and I used to have 1280x1024 on Ubuntu too, until I installed SuSE that is…

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What graphic driver are you using in your xorg.conf?

Can you post here the output of typing in a gnome-terminal or a konsole:
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

If it were me, dependent on what I saw in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I would reboot my PC to run level 3 (ie to a terminal), log in, backup my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and then run sax2 to see if I could configure to a higher resolution.

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Well, this is the output:

joel@linux-j1e8:~> grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  Driver       "kbd"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Driver       "savage"

I’m not sure about the first, but the other two is obviously the mouse and the graphics card.

Now, this might sound a little, weird as I’m a Linux Developer.
Anyhow, I have no idea how to reboot to run level 3, plus it sounds scary.

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Hmm, I can’t seem to edit the post.
Anyhow, the problem is solved, sorta, don’t ask how, because I have no clue, but after reboot, it had the right resolution… What happened I’ll probably never know. Anyhow, thanks!

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OK, thats good !

Anyway, your video driver was “savage” (as you surmised). “kbd” is your keyboard driver.

And in case someone says “boot to run level 3” again, all you do, when the grub menu appears, is type the letter “3” by itself, in the options line. Grub will interpet that “3” as an instruction to boot to run level 3.

Various Linux/unix OS/distributions define the run level different … some info:
Runlevel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

OpenSuSE is something like this:
0 Halt
1 Single
2 Full multi-user with no networking
3 Full multi-user without display manager
4 Not used/User definable
5 Full multi-user with display manager
6 Reboot

So nominally in run level 3, one has neworking/internet access, but one does not have the GUI running.