Hi there,

I just switched from Windows XP to SUSE linux 10.1. I have encountered the following problems:

1. when the background is white, I can see that each character on the screen has a shadow with it. especially when the contrast ratio is low (say lower than 60).

2. the computer has 4G memory, but the system can only recognize 3.2G.

I have tried both 64 bit and 32 bt system. The above mentioned two problems are encountered in both.

The configuration of my computer is as follows:

Motherboard: Asus P5LD2-VM Motherboard
with integrated Intel 950 GMA Video card
CPU: Intel Pentium D 950 3.4 GHz
Meomory: 4G
Monitor: Viewsonic VA912B

SUSE recognized graphics card as Intel 945G, monitor as VSC Viewsonic VA912-4 Series

Could any one can kindly help me out on these two problems.

With many thanks,

Henry

Did you check if the card is supported to begin with? Mine is recognised, it is an integrated Intel 945 GM.

Thanks, NDR008.

I remembered I had checked on the internet. Some said Intel 950 and 945 using same driver.

I donot know.

i'll check once back at home what module it is using to see if it is a matter of not having the right driver.
I think the intel 950/945 is not open source, meaning it is not part of the default installation of suse, you might want to check if there is a package you could have installed off the DVDs, that you didn't.

Thanks! The SUSE Linux 10.1 I am using is a retailed one. I donot know if this make any difference. But anyway this retailed DVD didnot help on this.

Other than the said two problems, the system runs fine. I only notice that one thing is funny:

When I typed "echo $shell" and "ech $path", it shows nothing; while I typed "echo $0", it showed "/bin/bash".

Thanks!

I have a Dell laptop that has the 945 GM embedded card. I had 10.1 on it and it worked great, I could get resolutions of 1680 x 1050 but what I used was 1440 x 900. Now, after installing 10.2 GM, I cannot get anything higher than 1280 x 1024. This does not bode well for a widescreen monitor.

Any help on this would be appreciated

I forgot Graphics Cards are handled differently.
Intel 945 GM is the best I can help...

hope someone can shed more light.

try echo $SHELL and echo $PATH . you can see your environmental variables by typing env .

Thanks. I have not used to type capitals.