On 12/14/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I would like to inquire as to why configuration of display settings > was removed from first boot. As it is, xorg often ignores resolutions > set by system-config-display, but now I'm not evening being given the > chance to be ignored, and frankly Fedora is terrible at guessing > display settings (from the past 4 FC6 install I've done). In the > latest install, FC6 correctly detected the VGA and monitor, but > botched the autoconfig enough that LCD blanked out (display out of > range) - fixing this was troublesome enough - and I've yet to get xorg > to accept the resolution as I set t exactly from > system-config-display. > > I was thinking of filing a bug report, but I figured that I should > better ask questions here first. I think the answer is that Xorg is moving into the direction of getting things working properly by default by instead of having the user fiddle with settings. The Xorg auto configuration mechanism in FC6 works better and usually gets things right. If there are problems file bug reports and help fix the issue rather than workaround it with configuration tools and files manually. For Xorg 7.3, the plan is to use HAL and DBus to enhance this further. Also see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XInFC7 Rahul
Until the process gets better, it would be nice if the config tool was still available on firstboot. As it is, if I didn't know what to do (because this happens to me so often) I would be stuck. I had to power down the machine, reboot, go to run level 3 , login , and then run the display config tool. As opposed to before, I would just have my display config settings ignored, and I'd be stuck on a poor but viewable display. I will try to file a report on the latest one - what data should I include? and what should I file against? And just to put this out there, some of you may have noticed that some dude strongly believes that FC killed some of his LCD's functionality - i don't really believe his case, but up on till yesterday, i had never had fedora completely blank out my display either. All this also explains why my desktop boots into a different resolution when my monitor is off than when it is on - was baffled by this until now. Restarting X normally fixes this issue, so I didn't bother with it. But I dare say this can be very worrying behavior. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
