Dear X11 gurus: The urge to have the latest and greatest monitor hit me, so I procured a Samsung Syncmaster 2494 monitor, 1920x1080 resolution, digital, 23.6" screen, only to get hit by a fatal bug in my OpenSuse 11.3 operating system.
First of all, I had to plug in a VGA monitor on the ECS GF6100-M754 v1.0 motherboard to tweak the bios to tell it to init the new Nvidia GF8400gs card, not the onboard GF6100 when coming up initially during Post. Then I had to use the VGA plug in the monitor to see what was happening with the OS on boot up since the digital port initially was not working. I finally was able to switch in to digital mode during initial boot, about 1/3 the way into the bootup, but only in run level 3 (CLI terminal mode) When I attempt to go to run level 5, X11 complains and says that it cannot find a device, hence no screen, then fails. Well, checking the xconfig file does show the old onboard graphics card device there, but obviously it is not being used, since the BIOS loaded the new card. So I need to install the correct device into this config file (which says DO NOT MANUALLY EDIT) The openSUSE 11.3 is supposed to use yast2 to configure, running the sax2 command (/usr/sbin/sax2) but that's missing in both the location and on the distribution rpm (I used fileroller to poke around inside the rpm package, no file!) So what command do I use to get the correct device for X11? I did see a gentoo site using xorg, will this work? Obviously there's a problem with no sax2.. but I will take that up with the openSUSE community shortly. Refer to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml for an outline. Will this work?? It is very frustrating to me to upgrade from openSuse 10.3 --> openSuse 11.0 only to find the monitor not working correctly, then upgraded to openSuse 11.3 then to find sax2 missing. It is almost like my efforts have been purposefully defeated :-) For now, I do have a very nice 1920x1080 text display in digital mode.. I admit it looks great! If you can reference some url or manual, I would be grateful.. All I am trying to do is to get the Samsung monitor to work under either Gnome or KDE4 desktop. Randall btw. It does PAY to check the support for your video card, I did find that Nvidia supports linux drivers for the GF8400GS card, which is why I got that card. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
