[ale] Has anyone tried the flat-screen with SUSE 9.2

[Michael Trausch]

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Greg Freemyer wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:27:29 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote:
> 
>>Eh.  You should be able to use it just fine, it appears to just be Yet
>>Another Flat Screen.
>>
>>  Later.
>>
> 
> Well, we have a cheap 15" flatscreen the works fine with Windows and
> does not even let me run in text-mode with SUSE 9.2.  I've also tried
> it with a couple of Knoppix versions and the SUSE 9.2 Live CD, no
> luck.
> 
> FInally, I see a lot of messages in the SuSE archives talking about
> flatscreen compatibility issues.
> 
> I'm not very convinced about universal compatibility, but the Samsung
> Jay mentioned looks promising.  I just need basic X-support, nothing
> exotic.
> 

Sounds like you just need to tinker with X's settings, and turn off
the framebuffer.  I use pure text mode and whatever mode works for
my monitor.  The automagic configuration utilities probably don't
support that under SuSE.

I don't use framebuffers, myself, and if the accelerated drivers for
your graphics card do not work, you can try the generic VESA driver
for X (with a bit of a reduction in graphics speed).

	- Mike

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