Bug 465632

Summary:	Buttons on installer screen not visible on Dell Inspiron 6000
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pepijn Schmitz <redhat>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, dcantrell, hdegoede
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Description Pepijn Schmitz 2008-10-04 21:14:53 UTC

Description of problem:

When trying to install Fedora 10 Beta i386 from DVD on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop the installer screen is tiny, and worse, it is so low down on the screen that the bottom portion is actually pushed off the screen and the buttons which I presume are there are not visible, making it impossible to continue.

The laptop has an ATI Mobility Radeon X300 chipset and a 1920 x 1200 pixels screen. The installer seems to only be using about 640 x 480 or 800 x 600 of those. The font is tiny and almost unreadable. The installer "window" is horizontally centered on the screen, but vertically it is below the bottom of the screen.

This is during installation. If you need logs then please include instructions on how to get them off the machine during the installation process.

How reproducible:

Try to install Fedora 10 Beta i386 on a Dell Inspiron 6000.

Comment 1 Pepijn Schmitz 2008-10-04 21:37:52 UTC

I tried adding resolution=1920x1200 to the kernel command line, but that made no difference. I couldn't find any option to install in text mode. Is that no longer possible?

I should also clarify that the problem is with the graphical installer. The preceding text-mode part functions correctly, using the entire screen (although with a tiny font and therefore a ridiculous number of rows and columns).

I've changed the severity to "urgent" since I can find no workaround and this problem is actually blocking me from installing Fedora...

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2008-10-05 17:52:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 464795 ***