[NBLUG/talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 4, Issue 15

A'fish'ionado afishionado1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 18 13:35:14 PDT 2004


<<~   First of all, which version of SuSE are you
running, and on which
laptop?>>

Suse 9.0 on a Dell Inspiron 1000.

<<Also, are your monitor settings correct or
reasonably close?>>

Hmm. SaX2 reports a VESA 800x600 at 60Hz monitor and a
SiS SiS650 monitor. Since I can't exactly pop the top
off my laptop (ah, the joys of desktops...), I'm
assuming these are correct...

<<4. Set colors to whichever setting you want- be
careful here, sometimes
high resolution and 24-bit color depth is not
supported; try 16-bit if
this is the case.>>

16-bit is selected by default; I haven't touched it.

<<6. Click on the '1024x768' box. That box and the
ones below should have
x's appear in them.>>

1024x768 is already checked (along with the boxes
below it).

<<7. At this point the message at the bottom of the
window should say
"Graphics engine starts with resolution:" and right
below, "1024x768"
should appear.>>

Yes.

<<8. If all looks in order at this point, click the
"finalize" button, 
then
click the 'test' button; SaX will at this point
generate a test window,
and in that window a box will list the resolution and
color depth, as
well
as the horizontal and vertical frequencies used.>>

Even though 1024x768 was selected under SaX2, the test
window still says "600x800" and runs at 600x800.

...

I went back to the monitor section, and just to see
what would happen, I selected VESA 1024x768 at 60Hz. The
X server test run ran perfectly at 1024x768
resolution. I guess now I'll reboot and see if that
works. :-) (I assume that if the X test runs without
"wobbling" or otherwise acting funny then I'm not
about to break anything...)

I'm still not sure why it would let me select 1024x768
under resolution, and then not do it, though. Hm.

Thanks a lot. :-)

William

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