Okay a bit more info :-
 
F17 Anaconda is running at the same descent resolution as F16.
 
On F18 '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' is reporting VESA.
 
I will try rolling an F19 ISO next just to rule out that its not a transient bug.
 
In parallel I will see if I can track down what is causing the problem.
 
Any pointers are welcome.


On 4 April 2013 18:43, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> wrote:

Le Jeu 4 avril 2013 00:03, Adam Williamson a écrit :
> On 03/04/13 02:50 PM, Felix Kaechele wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> And please do realize your graphics adapter is well over a decade old.
>>> ATI stopped posting official Windows drivers for it in 2002:
>>> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx .
>>
>> Quoting from Wikipedia: "It was also seen on Intel motherboards, as
>> recently as 2004, and was still used in 2006 for server motherboards."
>>
>> Well, yeah, old. But not ancient ;)
>
> I read that too, but 'seen as recently as 2006' still counts as ancient
> in my book. Especially 'for server motherboards', where kind of the
> whole point is no-one gives a crap about whether the graphics work,
> since they likely won't be plugged in 99.99% of the time...

Actually, one of the reason the Rage XL was used by almost every server
motherboard for half a decade or more, is that is was very well supported
in all OSes (Windows, Linux, Enterprise, consumer, recent, old…), and
didn't require the latest gamer os or an out-of-tree driver to work. From
a manufacturer POW it was a no-user-returns component.

--
Nicolas Mailhot