Oh well,
I still have a simular problem with ubuntu

OK, Slackware is not for me at this point. Not till I have more experience anyways. If anybody can shed some light on this I would be grateful. I installed 10.2 again, but still, no resolution higher than 1280 x 1024. It seems to be giving sax2 quite a bit of trouble, I've had some error messages while trying to save and even test resolutions. Just let me say that in sax2, it list tons of resolutions, many that my monitor wouldn't support for sure, but I know it supports 1440 x 900 and that is my goal

I'm thinking it must be in a config file somewhere. Heck, when I power down the text on the screen is so tiny I can barely read it, I am sure it is 1600 x whatever there or at least 1400 x.

It worked in 10.1 but not now in 10.2. But since I like this distro so much I will just hammer it out until it is fixed. (Any help would really come in handy though

Thanks guys,

Do have 1440x900 set in kde as well as yast/sax2 ?

Try (in yast2):
sax 2> monitor > change > display size >
my settings for 1440 x 900 are:

diag ----------- 18.9
aspect ratio --- 16 / 10
x axis --------- 408
y axis --------- 255

then make sure kde aint choking it back.

Dang I never even tried that, but I did, it saved those settings, but when I restarted graphics, boom right back to lower res. How do I prevent kde from 'choking' it?

Maybe I could select a different monitor, or try to download from Dell, and use the 'utility disk' option?

I don't know yet, I got to look at sax again.
10.1 had a little box somewhere in sax to check to allow system tray apps to change the rez.
If you can find it, I think it may fix everything by un-checking it.

I found the box, it's in kde.
I may be wrong about this.

I wonder if I should try the cd install instead of the DVD. I've read that some people have had better luck with the cd's

This is just really torquing me off !

I don't really know, but I used the dvd on 3 boxes.
one with 19" wide screen,
on with 17" square lcd and another with 15" crt and they all came out perfect.

I'll bet tonight when all the techs show up here one of them will tell you how to fix it.

Did you try un-checking the box in kde to "apply kde settings on start up"??
If not, try it and restart the box.

the box is not checked. Previously, in 10.1 I only checked that box after I successfully booted into 1440 x 900, then it seemed fine. What bugs me is that on the non graphical side, the text is freakin tiny I know it's using the highest rez, yet I can't get the graphics system to take it. I looked into s few files in the X11 folder, and 1440 x 900 is listed as a mode. Methinks it's a simple config file fix somewhere, but beyond my experience

I don't know, I am currently downloading the discs.

Yeah, I'm still tryin' to learn my way through linux myself.
Last year I thought linux was a cat from South America.
If it wasn't for this site, I never would have continued with my first distro. (Suse 10.0)
One of the moderators put me on to a book that I've been pickin' through that helps a lot.

Cueman,

I just googled and the first link was Gentoo's wiki. They have excellent documentation. They are using i810 driver with 915 resolution patch for the i945 video card. Take a look:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_E1405

Another link:
http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/ar...php/t-360.html

Wow thanks parsek for looking into this. That's why this forum is so great.

I'll let you know how I make out.

Well it looks like things are different with gentoo. I did find the section that shows how to modify the video bios but the folders and files must be different, I can't find them yet

It says the file is in /etc/conf.d/915resolution, yet not here in SUSe. I will google like crazy today, there must be some suse solutions out there