[KLUG Members] suse 9.0 and toshiba

Bruce Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:57:44 -0500


> 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.
...
> 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.

I've see it too.  Use the driver from nvidia.com.

> 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.....  

I had problems with gdm, so I use kdm to login to gnome.
Maybe that'll be fixed in XD2 ...

 - BS