On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:58 -0400, 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.
in addition to the root cause of this, which we're discussing
elsewhere, it occurs to me that this is probably also a bug in
firstboot (or, more specifically, in whatever WM we're using to run
firstboot). it shouldn't span the firstboot window across both
displays - even when you can see both, that's going to look silly.
I'll look into this further and file a bug if/where appropriate.
ok. just FYI, i rebooted and i'm back at xdpyinfo claiming i have
2080x800 res. i'll leave it there just in case you want me to try
something else.
rday
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