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Old 12-12-2003, 07:19 PM   #1
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Making permanent screen geometry settings


I have a dual-boot XP/Suse9.0 system.

I have an annoying little bug in my Suse setup that I can't sort out: Every time I boot into SuSE I have to adjust the monitor settings to get the screen centered, the right size and with straight edges - the vertical, horizontal, pincushion buttons. But for some reason the system doesn't remember the new settings - every time I boot into Suse I have to do it all over again.

Can someone give me pointers to where I can set these parameters? XP can do it and I'm sure SuSE can too - I just don't know where to start.

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Old 12-16-2003, 11:29 AM   #2
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i'm stumped also

...and would also like to know since I've noticed this with more than one distro sharing a box with win98. (happened on more than one pc/monitor combination).
 
Old 12-21-2003, 04:40 PM   #3
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Howdy!

I've been using SuSE for several years now and the only way I've found that satisfies me is to just delete SuSE's XF86Config files and start over. I know that there are distros that use the same kind of convoluted setup, and maybe they work better for them. For that matter, maybe SuSE's way works great for everyone else except the three of us, though I doubt it.

I just replied to a post under Linux-hardware (it should be still on the first page of questions for this category, titled "Setting refresh rates in Suse", wherein I listed, step-by-step, what I do to fix the problem. And the problem IS the same there, as it is here!

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