system-config-display in F12 Beta fails with nouveau/Nvidia FX5200

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/26/2009 10:57 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 10/26/2009 09:20 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 10/26/2009 09:18 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2009 07:20 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>> I installed F12 Beta from scratch, and X11 was installed on my
>>>> 1280x1024 screen correctly (Video card Nvidia FX5200) with the nouveau
>>>> driver.
>>>>
>>>> Now I tried to install a new xorg.conf by using system-config-display
>>>> (for experimental reasons), but it failed with and without the
>>>> --reconfig option.
>>>>
>>>> Somebody made similar experiences?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have seen some [DRM] complaint during boot up on my laptop that has
>>> Nvidia Quadro FX 570M does not grind the machine to halt thou..
>>>
>>> Did it work correctly without an xorg.conf and you decided to create one
>>> for the fun of it or did it not work after install and you were forced
>>> to create an xorg.conf to circumvent the problem?  ( Note you should not
>>> need to create a xorg.conf file )
>>>
>> Hi JBG,
>>
>> as I told in my previous email, it came up correctly when I installed
>> F12 Beta without changes.
>>
>> It did not work correctly when trying to create for fun a new
>> xorg.conf (I wanted to test a reduced resolution 1024x768).
>
> Well you can reduce the resolution using in Gnome for instance
> Preference -->  Display or via terminal xrandr -s 1024x768
> without the need to actually create an xorg.conf. But you should file a
> report against s-c-d and attache the created xorg.conf along with xorg
> log file encase it's generating it incorrectly..

I did this already.
   Bug 530933 -  system-config-display fails with Nvidia FX5200 video 
card on F12 Beta
>
> Also see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf
>
> JBG
>

Joachim Backes

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