I am running SUSE 10.1 and I have a Diamond Stealth S80 video card w/ATI Radeon 9200 GPU. I recently purchased a new monitor a widescreen Dell 2407FPW. When I originally installed SUSE it recoginized my monitor and I assume my video card, but I am not sure. When I went into Control Center and attempted to change my monitor, of course it was not there.

Now I would like to use the 1920 modes of the monitor and I have dones searches but I am unsure of where to start. Many threads state I need to know the refresh rates where do I find these? I need to modify the xorg file, but do I need to generate a new one? Do I need to add something so that SUSE recognizes my monitor? Thanks for help.

First look on monitor for all the information and then go to a search engine and enter make - model - specs. If it is a new model you may have to get the vert. and horiz. refresh rates from the manufacture. Now on your desktop go to (system - Configuration - SaX2) and it has a place to enter new monitor and the specifications.

is it just me or there seem to be an unusually large number of problems with suse lately?

operator 10001 maybe you should start a new thread with that question. We are talking about a video monitor and card in this one

Larry:

Thanks for the help, but I do not see in SaX2 where I can enter a new model. I can only find where I can select existing models. Where is the location for creating new models? Thanks.

I'm sorry, I gave you some bad information. Open SaX2 and make sure monitor is highligted and in the right panel click the "change" button. In the new panel click on both top tabs and enter the values. It has been some time since I had to do it and I wasn't happy with the factory values and changed some of the values my self. If you want to read more on this; use the forum search at the top of this page and you will see posts on "how to's" to change the settings in X config file using an editor