On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 09:07 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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.
what's the output of 'xrandr' at a console?
I suspect it thinks you have a second display attached, at resolution 800x600.