Fedora 7 vs 6 installation

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Thu Jan 11 15:05:49 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 10:34 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:06:41 -0700, Jerry Williams wrote:
> 
> > The other thing that kind of bugs me is the resolution that is used
> > for the display.  The default seems way high.
> > I am thinking that it would be better to start with 800x600 or
> > 1024x768 and then let the user bump it up it they would like.
> 
> I seem to remember that the FC6 installer came up with 800x600 on
> my laptop.

It certainly should.

The heuristic here is:  native driver at 800x600, then native driver at
whatever it'll give you, then vesa at 800x600.  But the UI is only
800x600 pixels no matter what.

- ajax




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