Bug 434389

Summary:	Incorrect screen resolution
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Praveen Kunjapur <stilo_vingyou>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <sax2-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Praveen Kunjapur 2008-10-10 16:25:24 UTC

I downloaded openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Live CD. When grub showed up, I set the screen resolution of 1024*768 for my laptop instead of the default 800*600 from the option 'Video Mode' in grub and booted in Live mode.

When I got the KDE 4 desktop in live mode, the screen resolution is still set at 800*600 even when I selected the resolution 1024*768 from the previous grub menu.

Due to problems as mentioned by me in Bug nos. - 404881 and 434334, I cannot use the GUI. Though the CLI works for me i.e Ctrl+Alt+F1.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2008-10-22 12:08:13 UTC

Your monitor has not been detected. You can reconfigure resolution with SaX2 or possibly with krandrtray/xrandr. But since your mouse is not usable you can't verify this. :-(

==> WONTIFX (should be called CANNOTFIX, but this resolution doesn't exist)

Comment 2 Praveen Kunjapur 2008-11-03 11:45:38 UTC

Please don't call this WONTFIX/CANNOTFIX as I can make my mouse usable by using kernel paramter 

i8042.nomux

when GRUB shows up when I press the poweron button of my laptop.

I reconfigured resolution to 1280*800 (which is the real resolution of my laptop unlike 1024*768 stated above. Sorry about that) by going to Kickoff Menu -> Applications -> Configure Desktop -> General -> (in section Computer Administration) Display.

But, every time I logout/reboot from KDE 4 after reconfiguring the resolution to 1280*800, the resolution again revert backs to 800*600.

Additionally, when the GRUB login screen shows up where one enters USERNAME and PASSWORD, by default, the GRUB login screen resolution is set to 800*600 when the real resolution of my laptop is 1280*800.

The KDE splash screen which comes after logging one's USERNAME and PASSWORD, by default, also displays itself in the resolution of 800*600 which is incorrect since the correct resolution is 1280*800.

Further, when I set my resolution to 1280*800 by going to Kickoff Menu -> Applications -> Configure Desktop -> General -> (in section Computer Administration) Display, KDE reverts to 1280*800, but the panel at the bottom doesn't set itself to 1280*800 resolution but stays at 800*600 resolution thereby displaying an incomplete panel bar.

I will upload the screenshot of the panel to Bugzilla soon. The whole problem stated in this comment is prevalent in Beta 3.

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2008-11-03 12:05:48 UTC

> Please don't call this WONTFIX/CANNOTFIX as I can make my mouse usable by
> using kernel paramter 
>
>   i8042.nomux
>
> when GRUB shows up when I press the poweron button of my laptop.

Please open a seperate bugreport for this filed against Kernel component.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 440973 ***