Bug 106187 (tepuyes)

Summary: Display settings not sticking
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Glen Christensen <gchristensen>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dsecareanu, tepuyes
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86   
OS: SUSE Other   
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Description Glen Christensen 2005-08-22 15:04:11 UTC
I have no mouse, but during the hardware configuration phase I am having 
serious difficulties.  I press Ctrl-C to Change the settings for the video 
card/monitor, but when I select Graphics Card, it tells me to use the 
hyperlinks for my changes.  I changed the monitor (my native resolution of 
1440x900 is finally in there!), but can't figure out how to change the default 
resolution, so it looks like initially X will be running at 640x480 not 
1440x900.  Never mind, I found it....its hard here because of the goofy 
picture on the screen (offset, etc) 
 
My display settings didn't appear to stick....it started X and was setup as I 
configured it in yast-textmode, but when I went into YaST2 to check on 
it(which is really Sax2, right?), it had defaulted to no monitor and 640x480 
settings, so I reconfigured it.  Whenever I go back in there, its wrong again.
Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-23 08:51:17 UTC
- During installation there are 3 basic links within the hardware proposal 
  Monitor Resolution and Colordepth. The first paragraph of your report sounds 
  strange to me I don't understand why you are not able to select a 
  resolution ? 
 
- The second paragraph of your report points to a bug which has already 
  been fixed but not for beta2 (#105207) 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105207 ***
Comment 2 Daniel Secareanu 2005-08-26 20:56:06 UTC
I had the same issue as in the first paragraph:

When at video settings, the cool thing is that you don't have to start sax2 to
set up video card, but can set things directly... the bad thing is that it
didn't work, nor it asked me to test the settings, and of course when install
was over, even though i set up lcd display at 1440x900 with same screen
resolution, the system started with the default 800x600 so I had to redo this
manually. In beta2, this resolution worked ok on my compaq armada e500 display,
on beta3 it doesn't work anymore, so I switched to  1400x1050 which works...
(although the 1440x900 is the native for my display) Doing this manually in
sax2, it asked me to test the settings... which didn't happen at
install/configure time. I think it should be a test option there... or else ppl
will end up with faulty configs and no working X windows...

Daniel

Comment 3 Daniel Secareanu 2005-08-26 20:59:31 UTC
I think the first paragraph of this report is a bug by itself, I reproduced it
myself... It happened in beta3 (initially was observed in beta2) so I reopen
this bug.

Daniel

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-28 16:15:58 UTC
sorry I cannot reproduce your issues  
Comment 5 Ivan Burgos 2006-06-05 21:30:47 UTC
I got a similar problem, IBM NetVista Integrated card I82845g/gl and monitor E74, I am not able to configure at least 1024*720 and 15 bits depth color (not 16 millions)sax2 always says configuration is wrong and set it directly to 640*480 or 800*600 (8 bits depth color). On winXP everything works even in major resolutions. Could you help me?
Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2006-06-07 11:08:22 UTC
sorry I still can't reproduce your problem and beside this it is far
too late for 10.1. So the only thing I can offer is to point you to
the latest sax version:

   ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sax/head-build/i386/SL10.1

Well as far as I cannot reproduce this I'm not of great help
Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:32:41 UTC
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:06 UTC
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:40:31 UTC
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:52:24 UTC
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(