Screen resolution

I have recently installed SuSE 11.3 onto a system already running
Ubunto 10.XX and windows. The problem I’m having is the initial
screen resolution. The video card is a s3virge with 4MB and I
want to use the vesa driver. Does anyone know how or where
the configuration files for the device/card driver specs are keept
so I can change them? The card starts in 320X200, does’t look
good, and crashes before up and running.

Hi
Will move this thread to the install/boot/login forum where your likely to get a reply :wink:

nntp users please don’t reply to the thread here.

Thread move completed.

The configuration files are now located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory (although if you choose to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file then its settings will still take presedence over any other config files).

See if these guides help:

SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

openSUSE Graphic Card Practical Theory Guide for Users

Thanks, problem solved. I just pluged “vesa” into the driver string of the
50.device file and got it working.
I really did not want to shotgun file changes until I had some idea of
what I was doing. With out sax2 this was if’y, so many changes in
X server sence SuSE 9.0 I was not sure what to change.
By the way there is a lot of good info and reference here.
I be sure to stay tuned. Thanks JBG.

Thanks, problem solved. I just pluged “vesa” into the driver string of the
50.device file and got it working.

Yes, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf is the place to specify the graphics driver. Thanks for the update.