F10-Snapshot-X86_64-KDE

[Mani A]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>> All other problems seem to be fixed in snapshot-2, except for
>> automatic detection of display resolution.
>>
> I'm not worried about "automatic detection," is there any way at all to tell
> the system to use more than 640x480 (800x600 on one system)? The nice tab
> for defining monitor resolution is gone, replaced with nothing I have found.

In the boot screen
Press esc, then tab
add resolution=1600x1200 as a boot option

and any other 'boot time kernel option' that may be relevant.

On radeon HD 36xx cards, too the radeon driver works 'out of box'

>
> 640x480 on a 1600x1200 or 1920x1080 monitor is very readable, probably from
> 100 yards away without optics. I've given up testing for the moment, nothing
> I really want to test runs, even in 800x600.

Best

A. Mani


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