suse 11 yast graphics card/monitor doesn't display

When I go to Yast in Suse 11 and click on graphics card and monitor to change resolution (under hardware), the system will go to console screen and give a login prompt. Before I can do anything, it’ll return to the Yast display without bringing up the graphics and monitor configuration screen.

The monitor is a Samsung T220 and the graphics card is ATI HD 3450. The default resolution from the hardware specs (and set at the Suse install) says 1024* 768. Hardware specs also says the monitor is generic brand.

Do I need to manually modify xorg.conf? What all do I need to set? Here is one setting I found on the internet but I don’t know if I need more in the xorg.conf.

Example in xorg.conf from internet:

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
UseModes “Modes0”
VendorName “Samsung”
ModelName “SyncMaster T220”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 30-81
VertRefresh 56-75
EndSection

Section “Modes”
Identifier “Modes0”

# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz

Modeline “1680x1050” 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

# 720x400 59.55 Hz (CVT) hsync: 24.83 kHz; pclk: 22.25 MHz

Modeline “720x400” 22.25 720 744 808 896 400 403 413 417 -hsync +vsync

# 256x341 59.09 Hz (CVT) hsync: 21.09 kHz; pclk: 6.75 MHz

Modeline “256x341” 6.75 256 264 288 320 341 344 354 357 -hsync +vsync
EndSection

The monitor’s optimum resolution is 1680*1050.

So should I manually edit the above into the xorg.conf file?
Is there a way to get Yast to bring up the set-up screen for graphics card/monitor?

Thank you in advance for looking at this post.
May

Try SaX2 in the menu or via the console to see if you get any joy that way.

Are you using the flgrx driver and if so which one?

I have noticed that the ones from the ati repository accessed through Yast manage to put the right information in Sax

On the other hand the drivers direct from ATI/AMD do not, at least for me.

Dave
VE3IXI

I did an update today and now get “Could not start kdeinit4”.
I will assume it has something to do with this problem.

How do I run saX2 from console (console is all I can reach now)?
It says command not found.

OK I ran sax2 and fixed the problem. I have 2 graphics card – one on mother board and an extra. I think Yast was getting confused between the two.

I still can’t run kde4 since my update but I installed kde3 and that runs.

Thank you for the suggestions!