On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, François Cami wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:57:35 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
following up on an earlier post, the only way i could install f11 beta on a new gateway m-1626 with a 1280x800 display and a radeon xpress 1270 video chipset was to select "simple video driver."
is there a graphical way to adjust this, or should i fix this by manually editing xorg.conf?
- patch your system up to kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11 and
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-10.fc11 . Those are available from koji : http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97202 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=96839
- rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf-backup
- check grub.conf for "nomodeset" and remove it as needed (a backup
of the original grub.conf is advisable as well) 3. reboot.
i was already running that kernel version based on a recent "yum update", and there is no mention of "nomodeset" in grub.conf. i was running the 6.12.1-9 version of the ati driver, so all i had to do was grab the newer ati driver from koji, i updated that, rebooted, but i'm still stuck with 1024x768. i'll try rebooting with "nomodeset" right away and let you know what happens.
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