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Hi there,
I have just installed opensuse 10.3 and I have the following problem.
By dafault suse gives ma a screen resolution of 1280x1040 and I would like to change it to 1280x768, but if I follow the procedure from Yast nothing happens. I mean, when I restart the Xsystem I still have the previous screen resolution. It happens the same if I try with a reolsuiton lower the 1280x768. I edited /Etc/X11/xorg.conf but everything seems to be ok.
Any ideas?
thank you
Hi there,
I have just installed opensuse 10.3 and I have the following problem.
By dafault suse gives ma a screen resolution of 1280x1040 and I would like to change it to 1280x768, but if I follow the procedure from Yast nothing happens. I mean, when I restart the Xsystem I still have the previous screen resolution. It happens the same if I try with a reolsuiton lower the 1280x768. I edited /Etc/X11/xorg.conf but everything seems to be ok.
Any ideas?
thank you
Alter your modeline accordingly. Alter the modes so that 1280x768 shows up as the very first entry.
All this info is in the link off post #2, as well as lots more.
Hi,
I followed your advices but nothing changes. I noticed that setting up the contrast of my monitor, in the windows setting it is said "resolution 1280x1024. Is it possible that the resolution is fixed by the monitor and there is non way to changed it?
The monitor is a Dell E196FP
Is your monitor a widescreen monitor?
Did you run gtf on your machine?
Did you alter the modeline as well as the modes?
This one?. Very nice! But this is not a widescreen monitor.
Your monitor and your videocard need to support the resolution. But normally, if the monitor doesn't, you'd get a "mode not supported" error and a blank screen.
Is your monitor a widescreen monitor?
Did you run gtf on your machine?
Did you alter the modeline as well as the modes?
This one?. Very nice! But this is not a widescreen monitor.
Your monitor and your videocard need to support the resolution. But normally, if the monitor doesn't, you'd get a "mode not supported" error and a blank screen.
Yes Idid all the operation mentioned in your message.
My monitoris is not widescreen. it's exactly the monitor in the article of your link. There no way to change resolution from 1280x1024 to 1024x768! It's strange because using Pclinuxos the resolution is just fine (1024x768) without any problem.
I really do not know what to do. May I should go back to Pclinuxos.
my monitor is not a widescreen 16x9 it's a normal dell E196FP 19 inch . Anyway if I set the monitor with Sax2 like a LCD video and I change the resolution to 1024x768 70Hrz it works, but the definition of images and icons is not very good. It seems they are a kind of out of focus. Is there a way to fix the definition? It's hard to work with 1280x1024 resolution or 1024x768 but out of focus.
To me, it seems strange to want to use a widescreen display on a standard ratio monitor - don't you get a black bar top and bottom?
Fuzzyness is usually corrected in the monitor itself.
However - if you get full-screen at that resolution, then you can expect distortion, yes. If the desktop stuff seems tall and thin, you can adjust the vertical display in your monitor simply enough.
[edit - fuzzy at 1024x768? - try commenting out the sync and refresh entries in xorg.conf. But, adjusting the monitor should help - is it just the icons or every image? There is no advantage to high scan rates in a digital lcd monitor as these things do not scan in any case.]
If PCLinuxOS does what you want, how you want, you would be silly to change. If there are other, compelling, reasons to change, then I'd have thought screen-resolution would be the least of your troubles.
Last edited by Simon Bridge; 11-21-2007 at 09:10 PM.
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