Monitor not supported in suse
 

I went in Yast to see if I could enable 3D which I did which doesn't work.
If I try to lauch tux racer I hear music but the screen goes black. I get a message from the monitor that the hv is too high and not supported.

Whenever I choose monitor / graphics card I always get a message that (0) monitor is not configued VSC with numbers I can't remember. The problem is that suse doesn't support my Viewsonic P75f. So I manually choose vesa 1280 x 1204 89hz. I adjust the fh 30 - 97 khz hf 50- 160hz (I got this from the viewsonic site) I used the app called screen resize and rotate to get my screen down to 1024 x 768 which then has the refresh rate at 118. BTW the viewsonic site shows 118 as the max as this res.

I remember how hopeless it was getting a non-supported printer to work.
Am I going to need to change my monitor ?

I did not attempt to install ati driver yet. On the specs at the bottom of the suse box it says support for radeon 9000 / 9500 / 9700. I have ati aiw 9000pro so I figured that I should try it as it is.

hi

try using the ati drivers from the site if possible. check if your card supports dri(direct rendering similar to directx in windows)

regards
rahul sundaram

In case I wasn't clear ... I need some advise on my monitor setup.

Thanks for the reply.
Since I don't feel comfortable enough to start installing drivers I guess I'll have to live without 3D for a while.

The printing issues I had this week drained me ...

hi

thats a nice idea. give it more time. get comfortable with what is working first and when you are in a good mood to spoil then try installing the drivers. :-)

regards
rahul sundaram

Video card driver
 

Although the SuSE box says support for Radeon 9000 (or nVidia GeForce, etc) it doesn't have the 3D accelerated driver. It is just a basic Vesa2 driver. To have the 3D accel. driver you must fetch it from the manufacturer's website. Get the latest driver!

As for monitor I have a similar problem, i.e. not supported (not on the lists) but it works. I just need to enter vertical and horizontal refresh rate and screen XY dimensions (I use ruler for this :-) to further optimize it. After that Sax2 is able to reconfigure the resolutions and colors. So I don't have to buy a new monitor ;-)

As for printer, well, there is no hope if it not listed in linuxprinting.org :-(