fc6 pre x86_64 install report

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Mon Oct 2 14:54:57 UTC 2006


tomhorsley at adelphia.net wrote:

> One very mysterious improvement, this x.org bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7243
> still crops up during anaconda (I get to see a desktop pretending to
> only be able to display 800x600 during install), but once the firstboot
> happens, the automatic X config somehow manages to do 1920x1080
> correctly (and I thought I'd been told anaconda uses the exact same X
> config as the full system). Don't know why this is working under
> normal circumstances now, but not in anaconda. (Not that I
> object, mind you :-).

Anaconda intentionally limits the resolution to 800x600 because that's 
what the UI is designed for.  Yes, this is a bad excuse, but we don't 
have a good scalable UI engine yet, so.

Good to hear the screen size was detected correctly.

- ajax




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