firstboot resolution [Was: Re: any list for test installing f12 beta on my x86_64 laptop?]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Vedran Miletić wrote:

> The reason for this resolution is probably that X thinks you have
> one more screen and then stretches firstboot over it.

  i'm convinced that's true since, once the system is up, X starts the
desktop at 2080x800.  definitely wrong.  but i don't see anything i
did during the install that might have given it that impression.

> Second reason would be that Xpress 200 and Xpress 200M support in X
> is actually really, really bad, and broken in many cases. Not to
> mention that there are multiple versions of this chip, and each one
> is slightly different. Provide lspci -vnn for your card in your bug
> report.
>
> But, from what I understand, you actually have a working KMS?

  i've BZed this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529026

in case anyone else wants to play.

rday
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