Wayne, Ricky and Graham, Thank you all very much. Your suggestions, Graham, did the trick. Although I could only get it to work - at the moment! - at 1024 x 768, it is a great improvement. I discovered that the graphics card was set as a generic card as well, so I changed that (although it didn't have my exact card). I have found out a lot from this exercise. I will probe deeper when I have a bit more time. I also changed one or two other things after this worked, so I will be going back there a bit more. I will also look for and read through the XF86 config file as soon as I can. When in XP I always edit the registry manually, so I'll be doing a lot of experimenting in time. Hope I don't mess things up too much!! Still, that's what learning is all about.
Thanks again folks. Glad I joined this group now.
Regards
Peter
On Sunday 27 February 2005 00:01, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:55 pm, Graham wrote:
On SuSE 9.1 (haven't had the courage to do an upgrade just yet) I would try the following:
Fire up YAST and select the Hardware | Graphics card option. A window appears labelled Desktop Settings with radio buttons for Text mode and Graphical environments. Select the latter. Hit the Change button, which loads SaX2.
Click Monitor and you'll get a list of currently configured monitors. Click Properties for a list of supported monitor makes and models. On the left, scroll to the top and select LCD, then select the resolution you want from the list on the right. OK that then click Finalize. Do the Test as recommended and save the settings. If the Test gives a blank screen or a total mess, leave the system for 30 seconds and it will revert. If you like what you see click Save. I'm working from memory a little here since I don't want to mess up my own settings. but the procedure is pretty straightforward. Modern monitors are usually able to cope with generic settings; LCD for TFT panels and VESA for CRT monitors. I've yet to see any of mine catered for exactly so I pick something that looks close and see how it goes.
-- GT
If that doesn't work post the contents of your XF86Config file (found in /etc/X11) so that we can have a look at it.
But as Graham says, SaX should sort it.
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