Graphics Issues with OpenSuSe for HP Laptop

[santosh.sam.koshy]

Dear All,

I have purchased a HP Laptop 6710b and have installed Open SuSe 10.2 on the same. THe graphics support seems to be limited since the resolution is 800x600 and it does not cover the whole screen. THe display is rendered 14 inches on a 15.4 inch display.

Kindly suggest driver support

This is an Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino

Regds
SAM

[daark.child]

What is the output of running

/sbin/lspci | grep -i vga

Have you tried running sax2 and using it to reconfigure your graphics settings?

[santosh.sam.koshy]

The output of the following

/sbin/lspci | grep -i vga


00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

I have tried with SAX2 yet there seems to be no change.

How do we find the monitor and graphics card information for configuration in Linux???

[daark.child]

Sax2 has an option to change the resolution. Did you try this option? hwinfo is the command that shows detailed info about your hardware. Also post the output of doing

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[santosh.sam.koshy]

Output of

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

is

Driver "kbd"
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "fddev"

Also,
when i try to start sax2 from Yast,

I get a message

The configuration is GrameBygger based and your system does not support changes for resolution and/or color settings


The screen then, blanks out the resolution buttons for the card.

The Monitor is defaulted to a LPL LG philips LCD monitor and no matter how many HP/Compaq monitors I try, it does not respond....

Regds
SAM

[daark.child]

Try the following. Sax2 -> Monitor -> Change -> LCD and pick a resolution that matches your monitor.

[santosh.sam.koshy]

It does not allow me to change the resolution. The resolution tab is blanked out.

[gogalthorp]

You might try changing the "dvdev" driver to a generic "vesa" in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. You will need to be root and you should make a backup copy of the file. If you don't know how to do this just ask and someone here or I will give you a step by step.

You will need a command line text editor. You should have vi installed but vi (vim) is a pain for new users but is a really good editor once you know it. If you don't know vi it is probably better to grab a friendlier editor like nano or joe. This will allow you to edit from the command line if per chance you blow away your gui.

[santosh.sam.koshy]

Thanks for the response

I am accustomed to the VI editor. Infact, the xorg.conf in my laptop has a driver fbdev and the board name is FrameBuffer Graphics. The vendor Name is VESA. Is it sufficient that I simply change the driver to dvdev?? Dont i need a driver too for the same???

Kindly guide me throught the process

Regds
SAM

[devils casper]

Replace fbdev with vesa in xorg.conf file and restart X Server or reboot machine.