Bugzilla – Bug 106187
Display settings not sticking
Last modified: 2008-07-17 13:29:25 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.
- 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 ***
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
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
sorry I cannot reproduce your issues
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?
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
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
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 ;(