Samsung SyncMaster 730B unable to start in SuSE 10.1

directlyconnected · 06-03-2006, 09:45 PM

I just bought a Sansung SyncMaster 730B, and it says "not optimum setting (1280X1124), inside a floating box (like a screensaver), with a ? in the middle, whenever I choose Installation. My two SATA's are in a RAID 0, and one of them became unplugged, which caused the Grub error 22 to come up. I am a total newbie, and I was dual booting on the RAID with XP Pro. The one I'm on now is a total different hdd with XP on it. I have an ATI Radeon (9600, I believe), regular pci, which I've never had problems with in the past on an HP V70 crt monitor. The Samsung is a 17" lcd, and it works fine in Win XP Pro. Please, what do I do???

twoHats · 06-06-2006, 10:16 AM

Sounds like you need to set your monitor to 1280X1124 in X. You didn't mention your distro - but the place to look may be /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If you look in that file you should see a section for monitors. Mine looks like:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "ViewSonic"
    ModelName "ViewSonic E790"
    HorizSync 30-95
    VertRefresh 50-200

    # Monitor preferred modeline (75.0 Hz vsync, 80.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync

    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630

    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

and one like:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "ATI X300"
    Driver "radeon"
    #VideoRam 131072
    # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

finally there is also a section like:

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen 1"
    Device "ATI X300"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubsection

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

which ties the monitor and the vid card together.

HTH