F10 Beta testing resaults :)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

James Laska wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 16:02 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>   
>> Graphical issues encountered  see Bug 464795 for further detail.
>> Bypassed by adding nomodeset.
>>     
>
> I've seen similar issues in the past and never been 100% sure how to
> characterize them.
>
> Does the screen resize issue you noted in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=318084 occur on the
> post-installed system?
>
>   
Ive only seen this in Anaconda and this is the first time that the
menu is not in the middle of the screen.

I had similar issue early after F9 release when hooking my T61p
which has an resolution of 1920x1200 to my HDTV
which has a resolution of 1920x1080.
 nv driver did not have the resoultion of 1920x1080 at that time.
( I'm guessing this is controlled by the driver here )

This was not that bad because driver set the output to 1920x1200
let's just say it did not stop me from playing my media.
( well first the driver try to put 1920x1920 to both screens )

What I did to bypass this issue was to lower the res to 1400x1050
which both the tv and the lcd have. problem solved.

Note this is not a problem today.
Restoring the resolution to the monitor if I remove
the laptop from the dock however is.

I've always been able until now to continue install
just with a big black background :)

I do believe that this is an resolution issue.
The highest resolution is supposed to be 1600x1200
This is an 15.4" wide lcd  but xrandr output does not list 1600x1200
resolution ( 1680x1050 is the highest res and is set to that after install )
> When you add the "nomodeset" kernel parameter, does X stretch to fill
> the screen during install?
>   
Yes, and I'm guessing that's because the res is 800x600 and "fits" the 
15.4" wide
monitor and is listen in xrand output.

JBG.