On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > my biggest worry regarding this install was whether video would work > properly (ati radeon xpress 200M). after the installation (which > seemed to go fine), the reboot brought me back to the firstboot(?) > stuff, at which point the resolution being used was off to the point > where the "Cancel" and whatever other buttons that are normally at the > lower right were completely invisible -- they were clearly off the > border of the display somewhere in that direction. > > the only way i could get thru that firstboot content was to use TAB > and guess which button i was pressing. i eventually got through that > and logged in, at which point "xdpyinfo" told me it was using a > resolution of 2080x800, when the actual display res is only 1280x800. > > thoughts? given that video still seems problematic, what is the > proper protocol to deal with this? in particular, what was the proper > approach at first reboot to be able to see the entire screen? is this > a known issue? thanks. > > rday > > p.s. curiously, now that i'm in my desktop session, the four squares > in the bottom right representing my 4 virtual desktops are *extremely* > stretched horizontally, proportionate to that much larger res. and if > i slide a window to the right and off the edge of the *visible* > display, i can still see the square representing that window in the > same virtual desktop, only way off to the right where it's not > visible. > > so how did f12 beta come to think of my laptop as having a 2080x800 > display? what should i have done (or be doing) differently? quick followup: i just popped into System->Prefs->Display, at which point i was given a choice of resolution, the highest being the correct one of 1280x800. i selected it, saved, and now things seem fine. but it's still odd where that initial 2080x800 res came from, and what i should have done differently to be able to see the entire screen during firstboot. whoops, i just restarted the system and i'm back to 2080x800. very strange. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list