[Scottish] SuSe 10 Installation

[stephen donaldson]

If you built the beast with a gui there is a yast X11 config file in the 
directory, rename this and you will at least have the original 800x600 
setup working.

Steve

Colin McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:24, Robert Barbour wrote:
>   
>> I tried 'sax2 -l' and got sax2 running properly, so far so good!
>>
>> I tried setting 640x480 at 60 Hz, but still got the out of range message.
>>
>>     
>
> Maybe a bit low for a modern monitor. Common ones to start with are:
>
> 640x480 at 70
> 640x480 at 75
> 800x600 at 60
> 800x600 at 70
> 800x600 at 75
> 1024x768 at 60
> 1024x768 at 70
>
> Just sub this in place of the 1024x800 at 70 in Ray's suggestion:
>   
>>   If you know the monitor and graphics card specifications you can try e.g.
>>  sax2 --vesa 0:1024x800 at 70
>>     
>
> (1024x800 Ray?)
>
> If it really is less than 5 years old, and UK spec, the monitor most be 
> capable of running in its "recommended" resolution at 70Hz or greater. If its 
> a 15", then higher resolutions than 1024x768 are not worth bothering about 
> (and probably not supported).
>
> HTH
>
> C.
>
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