RFE: make default after-installation resolution for X11 as 1024x768 instead of auto

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:49 +0800, Hikaru Amano wrote:
> A friend of mine want to try out Fedora, he have high end gfx (nvidia)
> card but his monitor have a low maximum resolution .. the installer
> worked fine but after installation , when the system trying to load X
> , the monitor goes out of range ... a boot into init 1 and change
> xorg.conf to inserted modes 1024x768 into the conf fixed the problem
> ... the auto resolution seems to try to use the highest resolution
> available which in this case is beyond the monitor limit ...
> 
> an experienced user like might know how to do this .. but not new
> users ... therefore .. i'm suggesting the installation will set
> maximum resolution for first time installation to 1024x768 and provide
> the user the option to change the resolution later ...
> 
> afaicr, older fedora/redhat have a screen resolution test that require
> user confirmaton on its first run .. but not the current installer ..

We now properly probe the monitor and should be coming up in its
native/best resolution.  If you have a case where this isn't happening,
please file a bug against the X driver (xorg-x11-drv-*) and include
the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Jeremy