How to change screen resolution in 11.4
Baron
I've just installed Open SuSE 11.4 KDE 4.5 Desktop and am having trouble
finding out how to change the screen resolution !
I have gone into the settings dialogue but the drop down menus only show
1184x1024 @ 77hz, there are no other values to change to. YAST doesn't
even show screen settings anymore. Trying to use SAX, just gets a "cnf
sax" which does nothing other than repeat its self.
I've searched the machine and cannot find the right file to alter the
values in. There are other problems as well but the screen is
jittering and blurred making things hard to read.
If it helps the Video card is on board and the BIOS only has 1 and 8Mb
that can be assigned to the video. 1024x768 @ 75hz worked just fine
previously, Using Open SuSE 11.1 on this machine.
Thanks in advance:
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Malcolm
Sax is long gone..... run the command xrandr in a konsole to verify what
screen resolutions you can run, but one wonders if 1-8MB of video RAM
will cut it...
The configuration files now live in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
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David Cowie
Have a look at the thread "11.4: screen resolution problem", which
covers some of the same ground.
I had to install the official Nvidia driver, manually edit /etc/X11/
xorg.conf.d, and start a Failsafe session to get a resolution *higher*
than 1024x768 and stop the screen twitching.
Do you still have your 11.1 installation disc? I was thinking about
going back for a while.
graham
copy from your suse 11.1 installation your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to
/etc/X11/ on the 11.4 installation and all should be ok providing they
are on the same machine.
Baron
I looked and couldn't find an xorg.conf.d file !!! There certainly
isn't one in /etc/X11/ But I will have another look on Monday when I
can get my mitts on the machine.
> Do you still have your 11.1 installation disc? I was thinking about
> going back for a while.
Yes I still have 11.1 ! That at least worked/works just fine until I
was daft enough to be seduced by 11.4...
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Baron.
Baron
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 20:02 +0100, Baron wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've just installed Open SuSE 11.4 KDE 4.5 Desktop and am having
>> trouble finding out how to change the screen resolution !
>>
>> I have gone into the settings dialogue but the drop down menus only
>> show
>> 1184x1024 @ 77hz, there are no other values to change to. YAST
>> doesn't
>> even show screen settings anymore. Trying to use SAX, just gets a
>> "cnf sax" which does nothing other than repeat its self.
>>
>> I've searched the machine and cannot find the right file to alter the
>> values in. There are other problems as well but the screen is
>> jittering and blurred making things hard to read.
>>
>> If it helps the Video card is on board and the BIOS only has 1 and
>> 8Mb that can be assigned to the video. 1024x768 @ 75hz worked just
>> fine previously, Using Open SuSE 11.1 on this machine.
>>
>> Thanks in advance:
>>
> Hi
> Sax is long gone.....
Argh... I should have known that.
> run the command xrandr in a konsole to verify
> what screen resolutions you can run, but one wonders if 1-8MB of video
> RAM will cut it...
This machine is actually a 1U server chassis and is hidden in a rack
amongst other machines, so its not something that I can change. 8Mb is
as far as it will go.
> The configuration files now live in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
>
I have looked in /etc/X11/ I didn't see an xorg.conf.d file. I'll
recheck on Monday.
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Will Honea
What's your video card? I've been fighting with Nvidia ever since 11.0 and
there are several ways to attack the problem, depending on which Nvidia
chips you have and whether you have monitor/kbd access during bootup - even
temporarily. If you have a later Nvidia chip (GF6xxx or later), the nouveau
driver will interfere with the repo version of the proprietary Nvidia
drivers. The packages direct from Nvidia installed "the hard way" will take
care of the conflicts in most cases and it actually writes an xorg.conf. but
if all you want is to monitor it remotely as a headless box vis ssh or vnc
you should be able ignore the local settings.
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Ron Gibson
<graham....@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>copy from your suse 11.1 installation your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to
>/etc/X11/ on the 11.4 installation and all should be ok providing they
>are on the same machine.
That's basically what I did and hand edited the file to vesa for a
Nvidia 460GTX.
Then I was able to run the nvidia*bin file fine and make the changes.
However, I need to go back at my xorg.conf and look at the file paths
for fonts and make sure it's pointing to the right place.
I also intend to look at the new generic stock file to see if
something is missing altogether in the modified old file I copied
over.
I don't think so as I've had no errors to date. BTW, after you get the
nvidia driver installed use nvidia-settings to set your screen
resolution, etc. You may have to run it from a command line in a
console as one version installed the driver but no icon for this
applet.
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Baron
Baron Inscribed thus:
Many thanks to all !
I must be as blind as a bat... I should have seen that "xorg.conf.d"
was a directory and that the files I needed were 50-Screen and
50-monitor inside that.
Anyway problem solved. I just changed the values for the screen to
1024x768 @ 60Hz and it works just fine... Now to find out why the
sound doesn't work !
Thanks again. :-)
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Baron.
Baron
Re-booted the machine this morning and now the sound works !!
But some items that I installed using YAST have gone walk about and
don't appear until I install them a second time. Also some Kmail items
have vanished as well.
KDE4.x is very disappointing ! Come back KDE 3.5.
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Baron.
Ron Gibson
wrote:
>Re-booted the machine this morning and now the sound works !!
Welcome to pulse audio. Don't go to far until you give it a workout.
Myself and others had the same symptoms as you did. Suddenly mine
started working too after a reboot but I found that the volume level
kept muting itself or creating noise whenever I opened another
application that in some case was not a multimedia app at all.
If you try to remove it from yast it will remove about 1/3 of your
other apps and it's just simpler to reinstall and deselect Pulse
Audio. Esound too it's place on my Gnome desktop and now all sound
works fine.
>But some items that I installed using YAST have gone walk about and
>don't appear until I install them a second time. Also some Kmail items
>have vanished as well.
All I actually *need* Linux for now is DVD::RIP. Unfortunately I'm
having to use XP for several media apps as I do a lot of encoding and
transcoding and at this time doze has a better selection of apps for
my purposes. I also have the latest Slackware 64 bit installed and it
too has the new and terrible KDE. With a lot of tweaking you can make
it very close to the KDE we all miss.
>KDE4.x is very disappointing ! Come back KDE 3.5.
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Baron
Ron Gibson Inscribed thus:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:55:49 +0100, Baron <ba...@linuxmaniac.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Re-booted the machine this morning and now the sound works !!
>
> Welcome to pulse audio. Don't go to far until you give it a workout.
> Myself and others had the same symptoms as you did. Suddenly mine
> started working too after a reboot but I found that the volume level
> kept muting itself or creating noise whenever I opened another
> application that in some case was not a multimedia app at all.
Yes I noticed this morning when booting up, the opening sounds went all
crackly and popping.
> If you try to remove it from yast it will remove about 1/3 of your
> other apps and it's just simpler to reinstall and deselect Pulse
> Audio. Esound too it's place on my Gnome desktop and now all sound
> works fine.
This one is an intel G845 based board with, I think an intel on board
sound chip.
>>But some items that I installed using YAST have gone walk about and
>>don't appear until I install them a second time. Also some Kmail
>>items have vanished as well.
Gkrellm has gone walkabout this morning as well ! Thats the second
time. Back to YAST and Software install, search and re-select it. It
gets installed a third time. I notice that all the setup changes I
made to the original install seem to have been saved, because it starts
up just as it was left.
> All I actually *need* Linux for now is DVD::RIP. Unfortunately I'm
> having to use XP for several media apps as I do a lot of encoding and
> transcoding and at this time doze has a better selection of apps for
> my purposes. I also have the latest Slackware 64 bit installed and it
> too has the new and terrible KDE. With a lot of tweaking you can make
> it very close to the KDE we all miss.
>>KDE4.x is very disappointing ! Come back KDE 3.5.
>
>
I've not used winsows for several years now though I do have to service
and maintain it. I'm seriously looking at Trinity to see if that is
going to be any better. KDE3.5 just worked...
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Best Regards:
Baron.