I've just installed SLES9.3 on my Sony Vaio VGN-T250P. This machine has an LCD display which in Windows gives 1280x768 resolution. After the basic install, I see only 800x600. In other words, a small active area in the middle of a bigger dark screen.

The YAST GUI monitor settings offer a few choices of higher resolution and some of them improve the situation, but none are 1280x768 and none give me a full screen.

The chipset is i810 so I downloaded the Intel i810 Linux Graphics driver

XFCOM-I810-GLIBC2.1-1.0.0-RH60.I386.RPM

from the Intel site and installed it. Rpm -qi shows that it's now installed. However, the monitor settings available in the YAST GUI still do not include a 1280x768 resolution choice.

I'm kind of a newbie at this. Do I need to rebuild the kernel in order to see the effects of the new driver in YAST? Do I just need to edit a config file directly and put in the correct resolution by hand? What should be my next steps?

Thanks,
Bret

Hi try reconfiguring Xorg (Xwindows) with xorgconfig. It will write a new xorg.conf file.
Something similar happened to me on an LCD monitor. Here are the steps I took: http://www.iacobelli.cl/mambo/index....d=27&Itemid=35

Hope this helps.

My Suse 9.3 distro does not include the tool xorgconfig. I might think of downloading the tool, but I wonder if it is intended to work on Suse. Do you have a URL to the developer's page so I can read what distros it supports?

Thanks,
Bret

Does SuSE use Xorg or Xfree86? If the latter the config tool might be xf86config.
The config file for Xorg is usually /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Xfree is at /etc/X11/Xf86config-4

Look for them in /etc/X11 I think.