screen resolution went back to 1024*768

spacegypsy · 04-16-2006, 07:27 AM

After installing my SuSE Linux 10.0 I had to install the Ati driver ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-i386.run.
Everything was ok and I had my 1280*800 at 60Hz screen resolution.
But after an online update my screen resolution went back to 1024*768 at 0Hz

Is this normal?

TruongAn · 04-16-2006, 07:38 AM

If everything is díplayed fine, and you can switch back to the previous status (1280*800), it's normal.

spacegypsy · 04-16-2006, 08:13 AM

That's the problem;
There's no way to switch back to 1280*800 in the screen resolution menu, and when I want to configure display setting only a little window appears with sax2; importing data, that's it.

TruongAn · 04-17-2006, 09:55 AM

I hardly know how do you mean.
To change the screen resolution you can edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find the section where resolutions is listed and add the number you want, you the letter "x" for to indicate multiply.

After chage the xorg.conf, you will see the new resolution available when you log out and log in again

spacegypsy · 04-18-2006, 02:20 PM

I' ll tell you the story;
I installed SuSE Linux 10.0 on my Acer Aspire 1692.
At first I only got a black screen.
So I ask the SuSE support why this happened, and they told to change 'Radeon' into 'vesa';

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The laptop you have contains an ATI graphics card. Unfortunately ati grpahics cards have a few setup problems during installation, thankfully it is something that can be fixed fairly easily. The following steps will get basic 1024x768 graphics up and running, the advanced driver installation you would need to follow the linux drivers installation from www.ati.com.

1) Turn on the computer and on the boot menu highlight SUSE, press F2 to bring up the boot options and type the number 3, then press enter.
2) When the screen comes up login as root.
3) Next type the following without quotation marks "mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
4) Scroll down the new screen till you see DEVICE and "Radeon". Replace "Radeon" with "vesa", then save and exit.
5) Reboot by typing without quotation marks "reboot", and let it boot normally into SUSE. You should now have a working gui. Go to www.ati.com to get the latest drivers for your machine and install following ati instructions.

I did so and everything was fine after installing the Ati driver I had 1280*800 at 60Hz screen resolution. But the my SuSE watcher did an online update and it was gone.
I did some forums and David W told me on this site http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...ic=30765&st=40

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If it was a Kernel update, then yes, you need to re-install the drivers again sad.gif

nVidia drivers are automatically updated these days, just wish ATi would get their act together, I would really like to try Compiz and XGL on this latop, but no chance sad.gif

That's about it; next update I probably will have the same problem (I guess).

TruongAn · 04-19-2006, 02:15 AM

So, the next time upgrade you shouldn't upgarde kernel.
Linux kernel is upgrade almost weekly.
No need to upgrade it so frequently, I upgrade my kernel every year.

However, did you switch back to 1200*800?

spacegypsy · 04-21-2006, 10:56 AM

Yes I did,
But I reinstalled everything; there must be a shorter way to get it back.

TruongAn · 04-21-2006, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by spacegypsy

Yes I did,
But I reinstalled everything; there must be a shorter way to get it back.

Let back up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf in case you need it later

spacegypsy · 04-22-2006, 07:18 AM

I will.
Thanks a lot