On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 00:32 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:44 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have a widescreen (1440x900) Samsung LCD, which works fine under F8, with both Gnome and KDE. The video card is an onboard Intel 965 (Intel mobo). Anaconda set me up with the Intel video driver and a 1024x768 display (stretched of course).
Yeah anaconda itself doesn't do high res, but it probably is not that anaconda guessed low for your installed resolution but that X incorrectly responded to the monitor after DDC probing, so look in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and file a bug on what is happening. Your /etc/X11/xorg.conf should not have resolutions specified by default and your monitor should be getting put into a standard (nice) native resolution rather than getting stretched.
I removed explicit modelines from xorg.conf and tried again, to no avail. I enclose my Xorg.0.log file, which looks OK. In fact it shows that it is detecting 1440x900 but the display is definitely stretched.
Further info: I booted the F9 Live CD and the display was configured correctly. Turns out there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf and X just uses an internal default.
So I removed xorg.conf in my Preview setup to see what would happen. It still failed in the same way.
I notice that when the display goes black there is apparently a desktop still there. The cursor changes shape (arrow or I-beam) according to where it is on the screen. I just can't see anything except the cursor.
poc
This is now filed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443546