Catch-22 : wide monitor -- Surprise!

[Bill Davidsen]

fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:19:45AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Beartooth wrote:
>>
>>> 	Btw, I don't really suppose this new change in anaconda is an act 
>>> of purposeful obscurantism -- but the result is not significantly 
>>> different. If the developers were deliberately trying to drive non-
>>> technoid users away, they could hardly do it more effectively than by 
>>> this and several other changes (such as package kit and network manager).
>>>
>> I have to agree, FC10 is absolutely the worst install available. I have it 
>> on five machines now, and in every case I had to do video tricks to get a 
>> working display. I think the people who put in that animated boot display 
>> took control, and were more concerned with having people oh and ah over the 
>> animation that have a working default video mode like 800x600, and have the 
>> graphics *fit* instead of depending on screen scrolling, which also doesn't 
>> work on several machines I tried, even if you know it's there.
>>
>> I have still been giving out FC9 DVDs to people, FC10 is just geek material 
>> as far as I'm concerned. FC10 is great software, but a hideous install.
> 
> Bill, I'm not disputing your experience. I've only installed F10 on a single
> machine, my eeepc 901, but on that machine it "just works".
> 
> As there is a LOT of variance from one machine to the next, I don't
> doubt that there are those where it is less smooth than my experience.
> 
> 
The issue is that FC9 works on all of the machines in question without problems. 
So it's very hard to say that on five servers, two laptops, and a virtual 
machine that I have just the wrong Intel, SiS, or ATI/Radeon video and the wrong 
display. I shouldn't have to set video modes every time with vga=, and if the 
install insists on picking a VGA 800x600 mode the content should fit, because 
new users don't know about screen scroll.

Bah.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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