James Laska wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 16:02 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Graphical issues encountered see Bug 464795 for further detail. Bypassed by adding nomodeset.
I've seen similar issues in the past and never been 100% sure how to characterize them.
Does the screen resize issue you noted in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=318084 occur on the post-installed system?
Ive only seen this in Anaconda and this is the first time that the menu is not in the middle of the screen.
I had similar issue early after F9 release when hooking my T61p which has an resolution of 1920x1200 to my HDTV which has a resolution of 1920x1080. nv driver did not have the resoultion of 1920x1080 at that time. ( I'm guessing this is controlled by the driver here )
This was not that bad because driver set the output to 1920x1200 let's just say it did not stop me from playing my media. ( well first the driver try to put 1920x1920 to both screens )
What I did to bypass this issue was to lower the res to 1400x1050 which both the tv and the lcd have. problem solved.
Note this is not a problem today. Restoring the resolution to the monitor if I remove the laptop from the dock however is.
I've always been able until now to continue install just with a big black background :)
I do believe that this is an resolution issue. The highest resolution is supposed to be 1600x1200 This is an 15.4" wide lcd but xrandr output does not list 1600x1200 resolution ( 1680x1050 is the highest res and is set to that after install )
When you add the "nomodeset" kernel parameter, does X stretch to fill the screen during install?
Yes, and I'm guessing that's because the res is 800x600 and "fits" the 15.4" wide monitor and is listen in xrand output.
JBG.