progress report: f12 beta x86_64 on gateway mx7120

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 18:38:09 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 10:40 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > my biggest worry regarding this install was whether video would work
> > properly (ati radeon xpress 200M).  after the installation (which
> > seemed to go fine), the reboot brought me back to the firstboot(?)
> > stuff, at which point the resolution being used was off to the point
> > where the "Cancel" and whatever other buttons that are normally at the
> > lower right were completely invisible -- they were clearly off the
> > border of the display somewhere in that direction.
> > 
> >   the only way i could get thru that firstboot content was to use TAB
> > and guess which button i was pressing.  i eventually got through that
> > and logged in, at which point "xdpyinfo" told me it was using a
> > resolution of 2080x800, when the actual display res is only 1280x800.
> 
> in addition to the root cause of this, which we're discussing elsewhere,
> it occurs to me that this is probably also a bug in firstboot (or, more
> specifically, in whatever WM we're using to run firstboot). it shouldn't
> span the firstboot window across both displays - even when you can see
> both, that's going to look silly. I'll look into this further and file a
> bug if/where appropriate.

Filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529045

this looks quite icky :(

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