having installed with simple video driver, can't get 1280x800 back

François Cami fcami at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 10 10:12:14 UTC 2009


On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:57:35 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>   following up on an earlier post, the only way i could install f11
> beta on a new gateway m-1626 with a 1280x800 display and a radeon
> xpress 1270 video chipset was to select "simple video driver."
> 
> is there a graphical way to adjust this, or should
> i fix this by manually editing xorg.conf?

0. patch your system up to kernel-2.6.29.1-54.fc11 and
  xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.1-10.fc11 . Those are available from koji :
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97202
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=96839
1. rename xorg.conf to xorg.conf-backup
2. check grub.conf for "nomodeset" and remove it as needed (a backup
  of the original grub.conf is advisable as well)
3. reboot.

You should be using the radeon driver in KMS mode.

If that fails, boot without KMS (add  nomodeset  to the kernel command
line). If that still fails, boot into runlevel 3 (add  3  to the kernel
command line) and switch back grub.conf and xorg.conf to the original
state.

If this fails, please file a bug with Xorg.0.log and dmesg from KMS and
non KMS attempts attached (uncompressed, text/plain please).

François




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