Another round of rawhide Live images

[Emmett Culley]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:29:29AM -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> fglrx isn't installed so the screen resolution isn't correct (1600x1200 
>> instead of 1920x1200)
> 
> As an aside - I wonder about the statement above.  This is an
> excerpt from /var/log/Xorg.0.log on FC6 machine using
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.3-1.fc6 and Radeon X700 (PCIE) card:
> 
> (**) RADEON(0): RADEONModeInit()
> 1920x1200     193.16  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242 (24,32) -H +V
> 1920x1200     193.16  1920 2048 2256 2592  1200 1201 1204 1242 (24,32) -H +V
> (**) RADEON(0): Pitch = 15728880 bytes (virtualX = 1920, displayWidth = 1920)
> 
> so it is clearly an "urban legend" that fglrx is required to see
> that resolution (although with some hardware/BIOS combinations that
> may indeed be the case).
> 
> It is true that there is a line
> 
>         Option      "PanelSize"  "1920x1200"
> 
> in a "driver" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf but other than that
> nothing special.
> 
>    Michal
> 
On my system there is no Option  "PanelSize" "1920x1200" in any section after booting the th live image (KDE, x86_64).

There is Driver "vesa" in the Display subsection of the Screen Section.

So the live boot does not detect the ATI x1400 Mobility or the Screen geometry and installs the Vesa driver.

I take that back.  It does detect the ATI x1400 video card, but it doesn't detect the 1920x1200 LCD.

When I use the system-config-display app I can select a genetic LCD of 1920x1200 resolution, but it doesn't have any effect.  1600x1200 is still the maximum selectable resolution.

I'm used to that though :-)  I always have to install the proprietary ATI drives to get that resolution.  But I won't go to that trouble for this Live spin.

Emmett