[ale] Changing screen resolution

[Geoffrey]

ringo wrote:
> I finally got SUSE 9.2 running on my Dell laptop, but the screen is in
> 640x 480 mode. If I right click on the screen (KDE) and go in and change
> the resolution to 600x 800 or something else then when I apply it the
> screen gets all weird. There are 2 "start menu" bars, the mouse pointer
> is a large fuzzy box etc. I did "refresh desktop" but that didn't help.
> I thought maybe re-booting would clear it up but it just goes back to
> 640x480. Am I missing a driver or something? How do I get it to go to a
> higher resolution correctly and stay there?

You actually should do this through Yast.  Select: Hardware -> Graphics 
card and monitor

Check to make sure that your card is properly recongized.  It would be 
helpful to have the specs on the card and screen. (freq. and stuff)

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Until later, Geoffrey