This is no longer an issue, however, it was such a bear to get around that I felt it my job to share my solution.

To be specific, I've upgraded to a Viewsonic VA721 monitor not too long ago and have been fighting with my SuSE installations ever since (9.2 & 10.1). After googling until my eyes were bleeding, I found no luck using the standard solutions. A few things that I tried:

1. Manually modified Xorg.conf. Various posts all of the Internet suggest that modifying a handful of lines (e.g., Section Screen and Modes, etc) correct the issue. No luck.
2. Run SaX2 in text mode. This was useful in order to better configure the monitor's default settings, but did not resolve the fundamental issue at hand.
3. Disabled graphical splash screen at boot time. This seemed promising and actually sent me in the right direction, but did not in itself correct the issue.

Finally, and just in time, I found that the issue was actually being caused by the Grub boot loader configuration that was installed by default (when my monitor was a standard CRT).

The solution that did work:

1. Updated "VGA Mode" to "1024x768, 16 bits (791)". A search or two revealed a few common VGA modes for LCD monitors and shortly there after I found the lucky winner.
2. Updated "Other Kernel Parameters" to "showopts resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=silent". Probably not necessary, but is helpful when testing VGA modes without going through the GUI Grub boot loader configuration utility.

Hope this helps someone out there!

Thanks,
Dylan

Hello, I too have this problem.

When you say that you updated vga mode etc...
Which config file did you edit to accomplish this?

Shango,

Try the following and I think you should be all set:

1. Goto YaST
2. Proceed to System group, and select the Boot Loader object.
3. Select the appropriate section/boot configuration.
4. Click Edit.
5. Put "1024x768, 16 bits (791)" in the VGA Mode field, and click Ok, Next, etc.

Once that has been committed and the boot loader configuration is updated, reboot and (hopefully) enjoy!

Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks,
Dylan

bleed my i's too, didn't find anything - tried xorg, x11 ......

Sol: DON'T have to change anything (files)

The problem is the Monitor config - manually select a generic LCD monitor = PnP type.

Open the Display config from System > Admin > Display menu

Select the H/W tab

Select Monitor and config

Select Generic LCD => 1280 x 1024 (or any)

apply & restart