Suse Desktop Screen is Shifted

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Hello All,

I am a noob trying to install openSuse 12.1 (I tried both 32 and 64 bit versions each with a clean install; formatted the home folder). My system configuration is:

Dell Inspirion 14z Ultrabook

  • 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3317U processor (3M Cache, up to 2.6 GHz)
  • 14" High Definition LED Display (1366 x 768)
  • 6Gb DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
  • 500GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD and 32GB mSATA SSD
  • 8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
  • Intel HD Graphics 4000

Now when I am trying to install Open SUSe in my laptop (using a USB) the screen is mis-aligned (both for the installer and after installation). To be more specific, the screen starts to the right of where it should start and the the end of the screen folds onto itself (on the left end).

I am wondering if this is a known issue with SUse (however after considerable search I couldn’t find much discussion about it) or is it a particular driver problem (are there any fixes). I hope I am not doing something extremely stupid. The functionality of Suse otherwise seems ok. I tried taking screenshots but they wouldn’t show the problem.

Thanks for your time!

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I should add that I fiddled with desktop resolutions and scaling and other things in Suse display settings but it didn’t change anything.

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There was a recent thread on the same topic:

http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/laptop/476893-opensuse-12-1-screen-issue-dell-laptop.html

This won’t be unique to openSUSE, but rather a bug with the intel graphics driver. I’m not aware of any solution as of yet, but maybe others are.

I would try openSUSE 12.2 GM, as it’s almost ready

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/477816-re-12-2-gm-almost-ready-3.html

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On 09/04/2012 09:06 AM, justcurious wrote:
> I am wondering if this is a known issue with SUse

there may (probably will) be someone along with more knowledge on this
subject…but for now try these two things:

  1. (dang, now i see you didn’t tell us which desktop environment you use
    [please always include both the version of openSUSE and the DE]–so, i
    don’t really know if you can do this, but try) click on “My Computer”
    and on that display find and report here what it says about your
    “Display Info” vendor, model and drivers…then,

  2. shut down all applications, then shutdown and reboot–and at the
    first green screen type into the “Boot Options” line


nomodeset

and press enter…does the screen folding cease?

note: if you can’t follow 1. above (because you have no “My Computer”
then please open a terminal and copy/paste in this command


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

and then copy/paste the in/output back to this thread using the
instructions here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr

–
dd

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Thank you all for your help. I wanted to update that I tried a fresh install with 12.2 that came out recently and everything seems fine. So I guess this question now is not very relevant.

Thanks for your help!