[KLUG Members] suse 9.0 and toshiba

[Adam Williams]

> >> I have installed suse 9.0 on my toshiba laptop. But am having trouble with 
> >> graphics and my mouse (odd yes I know). Suse recognizes my video card 
> >> properly (nvidia geforce...) but wants to run at 800x600 but it centers it 
> >> in the middle of the screen leaving a black area, and the mouse works. If 
> >> I go into yast to change it to 1024x768 and restart and it comes up full 
> >> screen using it properly but then I have no mouse the pointer dissappears 
> >> and so making it a little difficult to accomplish something. Any 
> >> suggestions?
> >The X setup for SuSE is a little more tricky than RH/FD (probably since
> >it has more options you can configure).  It took me a couple tries to
> >get it working right on my laptop too
> >First, make sure you select the correct monitor type.  You may have to
> >do some trial & error to get the right one.  For laptops, I usually grab
> >one of the "1024x768" monitors from the "Laptop" section.  I think it's
> >the one with the lowest refresh rate, but you may have to try more than
> >one of them.
> I have tried using the generice lcd selection and then choosing the 
> 1024x768 selection. that did not work went to toshiba and 1024x768 with 
> lowest refresh rate and that did not work. Is there a way to tell what 
> kind of monitor I have and see if that is listed under the toshiba 
> selection? 

I've seen it, and tried Toshiba/LCD/VESA 1024x768 screens.  THE TEST
WORKS!!! Then when X restarts it looks a squirrely like the hfreq is
wrong.

> >Then of course set your resolution & colors.  Then configure two mice.
> >One normal PS/2 mouse for the pad, and a 2nd mouse, USB/IMPS-2 for the
> >external USB wheel mouse.
> I did do that (remembered how to set the mouse from your previous help) so 
> it is listed there. The funny thing is I can not see the mouse but it is 
> there, because if I move it around and click stuff appears and so on.

He isn't crazy, I saw it do this - WIERD!  Oddly at 800x600 the screen
is centered in the 1024x768 panel and the mouse works.  Login/logout and
the screen is full size but one can't see the mouse.  Reboot and it
works again.

> >Once you get everything set, press the "test" button to make sure it
> >works.  Once you save it, immediately go back into the config screen,
> >run "test" and save it a second time.  I think there may be a bug that
> >the config doesn't always get saved unless you save it twice in a row.
> Will remember this. 

I've seen this on a server at work I've setup SuSe on.  No matter what -
I did save multiple times - the display manager would not switch.  I
zapped X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), killall -15 X, etc... and the display
manager just came back up as kdm (when I'd picked gdm).  Rebooted and
there was gdm.....