On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM John Pilkington <johnpilk222@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 08/05/2024 10:18, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-05-07 at 17:36 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > >> Some home router/gateways will remember the hostname a system used as > >> part of their network, and when handing out the same IP to a new > >> host, re-uses the saved hostname. > > > > I've yet to come across a home gateway that handles name resolution, > > they just dole out numerical IPs from their DHCP server, it also seems > > to be a bit of a rarity for a client to accept a hostname that a DHCP > > server does supply (if it does). DHCP clients can also request the > > DHCP server lets them use their own hostname, and that's often ignored, > > too. > > > > More often than not, a client would to a reverse DNS look-up on its > > assigned IP to see what domain/hostname is associated with that IP > > (which could be a DNS query, but first it looks in the hosts file). > > > > Not everyone has a DNS server, or a configurable one, nor adjusts their > > hosts file (often fighting with Network Mangler over it). So: > > > >> Set your preferred hostname either in GNOME Settings (or whatever > >> DE’s settings) or with hostnamectl. > > > > Which stores a setting somewhere naming itself consistently, whatever > > IP address you get given. > > > > This can get messy if you get assigned different numerical IPs from > > time to time. > > It occurs to me that my new 'dual-boot' problems with F40 KDE might be > related to this, but I'm not clear how I could test it. I've posted > both here and on the kde list. > > I have two screen-devices, HDMI tv and vga monitor. By default booting > is to Windows, but 'escape' early on goes to an HP-provided > boot-selection sequence and grub. > > Choosing "modesetting" starts booting with both screens active, but > freezes shortly after a cursor appears. > > "nomodeset" gives a usable system, but with the vga screen never active > and final HDMI resolution fixed at 800x600. > > Could this perhaps be a conflict of hostnames set at power-on and by Fedora? > > John P No. Whatever the hostname is it really does not matter for booting or not. The fact that nomodeset works tells me that the graphics driver in the kernel is unable to handle your card and/or monitors in some critical way. What kind of vga/video card do you have? -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
