Screen locked on 640x480 on ATI .__.

[9a3eedi]

Just recently I formatted my Linux partition and reinstalled openSuSE (x86_64) Linux on my 3.2 GHz Pentium D.

The first thing I did was go to ATI's website and install the drivers for my x1600 Graphics Card (PCI-E), because I had problems with it the last time and I don't want it to happen again. And it actually worked. OpenGL was configured with no problems. I tested running Blender and it was working smoothly. Additionally, before installing the drivers, the resolution was set on 1024x768, and after configuring the drivers, it has been set to 1280x1024. Which is my favorite resolution.

So I went a bit too excited and wanted to test out the capability of OpenGL with my graphics card. I went over to teh games section and tried BZFlag (Tank Battle Game). When I ran it, it seemed unresponsive, and I wasn't able to alt-tab to another program. So I panicked and shut down the X server (Ctrl+alt+backspace). So then it gave me a login screen.

But it's locked at a horribly low resolution, which I assume is 640x480.

I don't know how to change it back to my lovely 1280x1024. I tried going to the ATI control which is found in the K Menu, but it doesnt give me the option of changing resolutions........

I tried going to YAST and changing the resolutions from there, but it says that no display is active, which makes no sense. It also says that Primary Display 1 is on 1024x768, which I definately know that it's not.

Can somebody help me out please?

[apoorv_khurasia]

Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Look for

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "intel i810"
    Monitor     "LG Apoorv"
    DefaultDepth 24

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "640x400"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     640 400
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

My default depth is 24 and the mode corresponding to it is 1024x768. You can make it to any mode supported by your monitor and graphics card. (Do this as root and then restart the X-server).

[9a3eedi]

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
        Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
        Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
                Modes    "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

This is what I got.

The difference between mine and yours is that I have several modes for one subsection. If the Default Depth is 24, isn't it supposed to at least set it on 800x600?

However, I'm still stuck on 640x480

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