Fedora 7 Final testing

Justin Conover justin.conover at gmail.com
Wed May 30 02:38:46 UTC 2007


On 5/29/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 15:26 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 14:39:51 -0500,
> > >
> > > I looked through the xorg log and it looks like it is picking up
> reasonable
> > > possible modes for the monitor from direct probing.
> > > However the modes I would like are being rejected when checked against
> the
> > > video card as either "width too large for virtual size" or "height too
> large
> > > for virtual size".
> > >
> > > I remember seeing some discussion about the nv driver recently in
> regard
> > > to rawhide installs, so I'll see if I can find those or just drive to
> > > use the other driver.
> >
> > Uninstalling the nouvea driver didn't help.
> >
> > I found that changing the max colors did help. However the system config
> > menu for doing this has problems. The possible screen resolutions and
> > color depth should interact but don't. So that when in 24bit mode you
> > can't specify a change to both a lower color depth and a higher
> resolution
> > that won't work with the current color depth. Or perhaps worse, you can
> > choose a higher color depth when at a resolution that won't work with it
> > and then end up having to reboot in level 3 when your login screen is
> > fubar'd.
> >
> > So I think I can do what I want now, but perhaps I should bugzilla how
> the
> > config menu works?
>
> Don't feel obligated, I know it's bad.
>
> - ajax
>
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Is Fedora 7 still shiping on 5/31?

If so, no support for vesa on laptops with ati x1X00 cards still?  Maybe
desktop cards too, not sure.
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