On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 00:10 -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > [Officially off-topic, as this is a problem with Fedora 18, not testing. > I'm afraid I didn't get a chance to try out F18 before it was released. > Next time ...] > > I have a major F18 regression, which makes it unusable: The Gnome/X11 > environment sets the screen resolution 10 1280x1024 - but the actual > resolution is 1920x1080. Also, an external display is not seen, even when > I click "Detect Displays" in the "Displays" portion of System Settings. > > This is vanilla Gnome 3. (I assume KDE wouldn't make a difference, though > I'm willing to try it.) This is, alas, an "Optimus" laptop: a GeForce GT > 555M, > along with Intel Sandybridge Mobile GT2+. Also alas: There is no way to > disable > the Nvidia chip by booting into the BIOS settings. > > F18 was installed from scratch, so I may have missed installing or > setting something. > > So for now I'm stuck on Fedora 17 or running Fedora 18 under VirtualBox > under Windows - neither of which makes me happy. Please save me from this > unpleasant choice! What do I look for to fix this? well, for a start, Xorg.0.log and xrandr output would probably help. The graphical tools are too high level to tell us much of use. ajax may have some ideas regarding optimus specifically, I'm still pretty clueless on debugging that. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
