Monitor = Samsung SyncMaster 913N.
Graphics Card = NVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Distro = SuSE 10.2 (fully patched, but not using NVidia drivers).

When the graphics switches between the BIOS/Grub boot screens to the X-windows, the screen image jumps in position . This can be fixed by hitting the AUTO adjust button on the monitor.

I would like the screens to be correct without any manual intervention. This is presumably something to do with the plug-n-play profiles held by the monitor. How do I get X-windows to play nicely with the BIOS/Grub configuration i.e. do not jump all over it by using its own.

The monitor displays the signal it gets from the graphics card. You should run sax2 (either command-line, or from the Control Center- Yast2 modules) to configure the graphics card.

I suggest this because of my own experience. When my CRT monitor died, I bought an LCD monitor. The image of the spalshscreen was centered correctly during boot, but after login it was shifted to the left about 1.5 centimeters.

When I went into SaX2 to check the graphics card setup, my card was incorrectly identified (correct vendor; wrong model). Selecting the correct card, and verifying the resolutions and hz/vt sync rates fixed that problem.

Although the correct monitor type had be detected the minimum vertical scan settings was wrong. Corrected this by hand, don't think this had any bearing on the problem. Played about with SaX2 still could not get the correct behaviour.

Fixed the problem by installing the NVidia driver.