Bug 873233

Summary:	Screen in low resolution 600x480 can't be changed to higher resolution
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1	Reporter:	Freek de Kruijf <freek>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	RC 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Freek de Kruijf 2014-04-11 15:17:04 UTC

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I installed openSUSE 13.1 Xfce on a system with a VIA P4M800Pro graphics card. During the installation I had a quite normal screen. However after the installation and starting an Xfce session the screen resolution is 600x480. In Windows XP the resolution was 1024x768, but could be made higher.
Searching for a solution I found information suggesting the use of openchrome, so I installed xf86-video-openchrome. However this gives no signal to the display. I also tried the version 3.3 from openSUSE Build with the same problem.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Forgotten User cAXlJ_FoSf 2014-04-14 08:33:26 UTC

X/driver problem, reassigning.

Comment 2 Christian Boltz 2014-06-22 22:47:48 UTC

I had a similar problem on some laptops.
See also: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875346

Do you use GRUB2 as bootloader?
If yes, please set the resolution in YaST2 - bootloader to 1024x768 (or whatever you want) instead of "autodetect" and reboot. Does this give you the expected resolution?

Comment 3 Freek de Kruijf 2014-06-23 10:58:39 UTC

Yes, I used GRUB2.
However, the "solution" was to buy a second hand system that did not have this problem. So I can't provide the needed information.

Comment 4 Freek de Kruijf 2014-07-09 20:12:00 UTC

Closed.