On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:20 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: > > 2009/1/13 Julius Smith <julius.smith@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> In case it's relevant, I got a Radeon HD 4850 working on F10 x86_64 by > >> FIRST booting into single-user mode and then exiting to runlevel 5. I > >> don't have to do this two-stage boot using the vesa driver, but I do > >> with the fglrx driver. My display is 1920x1200 60Hz (flat panel LCD) > >> - Julius > > > > As Kevin said, I downloaded the compat-libstdc++ libraries and now > > everything is perfect even with fglrx. However I noticed something, > > livna-config-display requires system-config-display as a dependency. > > However the F10 DVD doesn't have that package, and I had to download > > it from the repos. > > > This is because people who build the DVD think you should use something else to > configure your display, so they don't put system-config-display on the DVD. The > DVD contents are not selected to include everything you might find useful as > long as it will fit, but to include the things someone else thinks you should use. > > I understand why fglrx isn't on the DVD, the lack of the config tool seems like > someone thinking they know better than you do how you should use your computer. > > I just inherited a 32" HDTV which can still be used as a display, so I will be > fighting these problems on every machine on my KVM switch. ---- I gather that you don't know how annoying your whining about this has become in so short of a time. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-January/msg01632.html That KVM switches are hostile to plug & pray configurations...what's new there? Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
