On Wednesday January 03 2007 10:00 am, Gordon Keehn wrote: > I just installed OpenSuSE 10.2 on an IBM A60 (video adapter > unknown; it's at home and I'm at work) that had previously had 10.1 > installed. When I originally installed 10.1, after the first boot I got > a popup stating that my monitor geometry was unknown, and did I want to > configure it (or words to that effect). I clicked "Yes" and SAX2 opened > up, letting me select the screen resolution and color density I desired. > I wasn't, therefore, surprised when I got the same popup after > installing 10.2. (Installing, not "updating to"; several other things > happened on this box in the meantime.) What DID surprise me was that, > after setting resolution and screen density in SAX2 and clicking "Test" > when prompted, my monitor (an IBM G96 19" CRT) displayed a (brightly > colored) flashing screen stating that the display parameters were > incorrect (again, or words to that effect). Pressing <Space> several > times got me back to SAX2, but anything I did at that point resulted in > the same problem. I eventually recovered by booting to Failsafe mode > and restoring (i.e. renaming) the original configuration file in > /etc/X11. This time when I rebooted and received the monitor geometry > popup, I selected "No". The popup closed leaving me with the screen > resolution I wanted. I don't know about color density (yet) but it is > at least 65536 colors (16 bit). > Now I'm afraid to do anything to probe or modify my display > settings. Has anyone else run into this kind of strangeness configuring > their display for the first time?
Yep.....with older hardware, I have. What you need are the specs. for that monitor.....refresh rates. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
