On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:40:05 -0400, > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > this seems like a fairly serious show-stopper -- and it seems > > like it would be independent of any video selection for the > > install itself. even when the install worked fine, it's the > > firstboot that *seemed* to select a resolution of 2080x800 for a > > 1280x800 display, making a lot of each screen inaccessible. > > > > suggestions? i'm willing to run some tests. the video card is > > an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, and i have a *long* history with ATI > > driver grief. > > As a short term fix you should be able to see up an xorg.conf file > that prefers 1280x800. I think using the modes command in the > display section will do what you want. man xorg.conf has more > details. > > I also recommend filing a bug against xorg-x11-drv-ati. That > probably won't get a quick fix, but will at least document the > issue. sure, i can do that, but i'll wait for a bit to see if anyone else has a thought. perhaps someone else is running into the same issue? it would be nice to verify that i'm not the only one seeing this. and i'm curious as to where X is getting the resolution of 2080x800 from. 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