Troubleshooting display

Get an problem with your display and you do not know if it is the graphics card, the monitor, or the display manager settings? This page is here to help you.

sync frequency

If you see a "sync frequency" error on your monitor, you probably have wrong monitor or graphic card settings.

grey login screen

I had it several times that SUSE Linux presented me a grey login screen instead of the default one. You would still be able to login, but then everything would be strange (after some research, you would say "TWM comes up instead of KDE"). To change this:

• open a console
• call the system administration tool of SUSE

yast2

• choose System -> /etc/sysconfig Editor -> Desktop -> Display manager -> DISPLAYMANAGER -> KDM
• click Finish
• reboot the computer