On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:49 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote: > A friend of mine want to try out Fedora, he have high end gfx (nvidia) > card but his monitor have a low maximum resolution .. the installer > worked fine but after installation , when the system trying to load X > , the monitor goes out of range ... a boot into init 1 and change > xorg.conf to inserted modes 1024x768 into the conf fixed the problem > ... the auto resolution seems to try to use the highest resolution > available which in this case is beyond the monitor limit ... > > an experienced user like might know how to do this .. but not new > users ... therefore .. i'm suggesting the installation will set > maximum resolution for first time installation to 1024x768 and provide > the user the option to change the resolution later ... > > afaicr, older fedora/redhat have a screen resolution test that require > user confirmaton on its first run .. but not the current installer .. We now properly probe the monitor and should be coming up in its native/best resolution. If you have a case where this isn't happening, please file a bug against the X driver (xorg-x11-drv-*) and include the /var/log/Xorg.0.log Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
