F11 monitor configuration / virtualization

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Thu Apr 30 19:52:59 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:46 +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
> Hi,
> Where did the monitor configuration go in f11? I've booted a virtualized 
> instance of F11 using kvm but can only get a maximum resolution of 800x600. 
> The monitor is displayed as "unknown" and there seems to be no way to 
> select one (like for example a generic 1280x1024 one).
> I'm also running an instance of WinXP using kvm and there I get higher 
> resolutions out of the box.

What X driver do you end up using?  What does the X log look like?

There's a hack in the cirrus driver to detect when we're running under
kvm, but naturally it only works if you're running a sufficiently new
kvm.  There is no equivalent hack in the vesa driver, but there
certainly could be.

- ajax
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