On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:38 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Last time a monitor bit the dust on me, the local shops were already > carrying wide ones all but exclusively, blast them -- such dimensions > were mythical beasts when even the newest of my machines were built. > > After much tedious labor and more bitter cursing, I got Fedora > *and* the monitor (HP w2207h) to agree to a compromise. Fedora treats it > as a 1680x1050 flat panel LCD, but with a choice to *use* it in > 1280x1024 mode. > > And all the machines in the house but two are cheerfully running > F10 that way -- all but two, my wife's and my main one. Those are the > ones I always upgrade last -- hers because she's writing whole books on > it, and I do elaborate multiple backups before any big change; and mine > because it has a second hard drive with XP installed. (I have yet to > manage to get any of my GPSs to talk with any of my proprietary topo map > software under wine or CXO.) > > Today I decided to tackle my main machine. Anaconda launches -- > but before it starts asking about language, keyboard, etc, I get the > dread "signal out of range; set to 1680x1050". But it has never ever yet > let me get to the normal means of resetting the display. All I can do is > hit the reset button, and start over. > > I know there is some slick trick for getting around this, which > always seems adequate when I recall or reconstruct it; but I don't > recall now. > > Clue, please, someone?? After several more failures, I tried for lack of a better idea, hitting tab on the "install or upgrade" line and simply typing " linux text" at the end of the line it gave me. Believe it or not (and I don't quite myself yet), that seems so far to have worked. At least, it immediately started checking dependencies, then went to Package Installation -- and is now claiming to be almost 2/3 done. What it did *not* do was to give me any option whatever to get at the partitioning, choice of hard drives (id est, protection of that poor miserable XP one). If it trashes what I have so reluctantly preserved through several previous upgrades, I'll never install Fedora again -- and I may get rid of it on all my others as fast as I can. Stay tuned. Btw, I don't really suppose this new change in anaconda is an act of purposeful obscurantism -- but the result is not significantly different. If the developers were deliberately trying to drive non- technoid users away, they could hardly do it more effectively than by this and several other changes (such as package kit and network manager). -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
