cant get the resolution of 1680 x 1050 on SUSE9.2
 

I purchased a DELL 20005FPW wide aspect panel monitor. My computer has 2 partitions, one runs WIN-XP (for my wife) and the other runs SUSE 9.2 (self). I am able to get 1680 x 1250 resolution @ 32-bit color on Win-XP, but on Linux no matter what I do I'm stuck at 1280 x 1024 @ 16-bit color. I went into YAST2 and changed the settings so that the graphics engine starts at 1680 x 1050.. but of no avail.

As I love linux, I would like to get this working so that I can justify using this beautifull monitor with linux. Here are the details.

os: suse 9.2
DELL 2005FPW wide-aspect flat panel monitor
ASUS P4R800-VM motherboard
- chipset: ATI RADEON 9100 AGP
- VGA ATI RADEON 9200 integrated graphics
kingston 512mb pc3200 ddr
intel p4-2.6ghz.

If any body could help me, i would greatly appreciate it & it will also have a stronger reason to steer my wife towards linux. Thanks for reading.

A first approach:

Ensure that you have the drivers for the ATI Radeon installed; Open Yast > Software management and search "ATI" or "RADEON" (check all the search options).

Once done switch to a console with ALT+CTRL+F1 (you can use F1-F6). Get root and change the current runlevel to runlevel 3 and start Sax:

I'm not sure about the latter flag, but you can safely run it w/o the 0=ati argument.

Now you will enter a graphical setup tool, just choose your card and if the resolution is not the right one you can set it by hand.

Hope it helps.

Problem fixed
 

Thanks for the pointer. I couldnt figure out where the "software management" under "YAST"/"YAST2" was.. I am not sure if suse9.2 has built in tools to just update the drivers by going to vendor sites for various hardware peripherals.

So I decided to goto ATI and under download drivers for Linux, I downloaded the drivers for ATI / RADEON 9100IGP. Did as mentioned in the install_instr, reboot.. boom.. my monitor works now @ 1680*1050. That was cool, finally I got it. Now the next task is to get my canon ip3000 pixima printer. I couldnt find the model in the vendor list neither the manufacturer cd is any good for linux.. any thoughts/suggestions on that.. ?

Hope this might help somebody..

Re: Problem fixed
 

Cannon has made a driver for these printers, they even have released the source code (!):

Installing with SUSE is pretty straightforward. To install all the drivers at once open a browser tab and go to
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/

On the FTP file list select these three packages


bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm
bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50-2.i386.rpm


right click and on the context menu choose "install package".
Yast will pop up and install them and the needed extra software (if any).


Next you need to install CUPS
To setup your printer using CUPS under KDE open the control center > peripherals > printers. Gnome also has a frontend to cups in it's config center.
It's very easy and wizard based, just select "local printer", the type of printer and try to print a test page. Canon states that this driver works as good as the Win drivers.

There are also guides:
guidepixusip3100-2.50-2.tar.gz
And some more documentation, I don't know which is the right one.
The numbering does not correspond to the exact printer type, so don't get confused if it is ip3100, this only mean that this driver can be used by any Cannon printer until ip3100 (and the same for the rest).

If you get the printer running, it would be nice if you wrote a hardware review, so that more people can take advantage ;)


NOTE: I could have put direct links to the files, but the method shown above comes more handy, as if there is any dependency among the packages Yast will not complain.
Another way to do it is downloading them to a directory, open a file browser and do the same as I wrote above.

I also have an ip3000 and am running the Canon Japan drivers. The drivers work great, but I can't get the ink monitor to work. It sees the printer as ready, but I never get any level feedback. Does anyone have this working?