Moin,
you are not alone - at least with the monitor resolution problem. It's probably not a "virtual machine" but a general error in 11.3 (I'm running a 11.3 installation on a quad core Intel system with a 24" DVI (1920x1200) and a 17" (1280x1024) VGA monitor). The monitors, resolutions and modes are identified correctly every time I start the respective Yast component; I activated the "VGA monitor is right of the DVI monitor" option, the desktop looked wonderful, but when I restarted X or the system, every time the clone mode (1280x1024) was active. I was very angry because the problem was well known and no update was available. I finally found a solution in a forum to override the default (works after login):
Copy the
~/.xinitrc.template file to
.xinitrc and add the following lines:
Code:
#
# Add your own lines here...
#
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto
xrandr --output VGA-1 --auto --right-of DVI-I-1
You can use more options of the
xrandr command to specify your monitor's properties.
In fact I'm a little bit pissed about the way Novell changed the X system - apparently without systematic tests. There were many complaints in XOrg and other forums about failures in the new XOrg startup, but nobody seems to care about :-(
I wonder about my next distribution: I installed my first SuSE in 1995, but the current state (remaining display errors, random audio interface initialization errors, missing updates for these errors...) is more and more annoying.
cu
Jan