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It seems I accidentally set my monitor resolution too high in Sax2 and
now when I boot up and try to start X the monitor shuts off to protect
itself. This has left me in a dilemma, as I can't start Sax2 to change the
resolution back because it starts X and uses the wrong resolution..
(I thought you could run sax2 from the command line without starting
x ??)
I am using suse 8.2 and tried running yast from the command line, it
works, but there seems to be no way to change the actual monitor
settings/resolution, just if you want a graphical or text interface).
How can I change this back to 800x600 from the command line?
some history--
actually this monitor, a gateway vx1100 is capable of running 1024x768
and even higher, I just can't get it to work under suse correctly.
My monitor is listed in the setup, but if you set it for anything higher
than 800x600 the monitor shuts down. I even tried entering the vertical
and horizontal frequencies manually, and still nothing. Any suggestions
on this front as well? I know the monitor is capable of this as windows
configures it correctly. nobody wants to run 800x600 on a 21" monitor! :->
your time and help is greatly appreciated!
thanks!
Judah
However, in my journey of trying to figure out what was wrong,
I googled and found a message some guy had posted that has
the same monitor as me. His Horizsync and Vertrefresh numbers
were different. His was Horizsync 31-108 & Vertrefresh 50-160.
Mine was 28-108 and 50-152.
So I tried his numbers and different screendepths to no avail.
I noticed the section with modelines as well. After the resolution
is listed a number with a decimal point. is this the Horizsync or
Vertrefresh number??
Is the modeline section generated with Sax2 when you set up the
monitor or is this a "preset" configuration when you choose your
monitor type in SaX2?
I really want to get my monitor working at higher resolutions.
I believe it is actually capable of doing 1280x1024 and maybe even
higher.
Pop over to www.x.org and download a recent version.
In my experience Sax2 is a crock and should be avoided. Configuring X with one of the built in tools (xorgconfig) is not at all difficult.
If you do upgrade, maek sure you do a litle googling about setting your default window manager as the upgradw will probably have you boot to wdm rather than gnome/kde.
the default depth is set to 16 and your highest resolution@ 16 is 800x600.
30 to 108 KHz; Vertical, 50 to 152 Hz......max resolution is 1600x1200
login as root in failsafe and enter "sax2" to run sax w/o gui.enter custom settings for h and v frequencies
sometimes sax needs to be played with to get the settings you want.......just run it a few times,restarting the x-server in between.
*edit*just noticed the SIS 650 vid card.as a side note.....there was a reason i gave mine away and replaced it with an nvidia
Last edited by piscikeeper; 01-05-2005 at 09:57 PM.
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