Monitor: Sony-G500 Video card: ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128M Firstboot didn't detect the monitor for some reason, but presented the Sony G500 from the list, and that was selected. In the next dialog select boxes a large list of resolutions were available, and the choice of thousands or millions of colors was available. I selected 1280x960 resolution with Millions of colors options and that was accepted. The video mode never changed, and when the login screen was presented it was in 800x600. Logging in as root and selecting Preferences -> Screen resolution presents only "800x600" and "640x480" options, and nowhere is the large list which was presented in firstboot listed. To the extent that there's also a bug with respect to the Preferences->Screen resolution application not seeing all the available modes for the installed hardware, a bug also applies to that software as well as firstboot's presumably not plumbing the right settings into the system hardware and X configuration files. This is with a virgin FC3T2 X86_64 install with no updates applied.
From the original poster: Concerning running: /usr/bin/system-config-display I noticed that when I enter the program the card is always set to "ATI Radeon 9800" instead of the correct "ATI Radeon 9800 PRO" which is another option, so it's not quite detecting that properly. When I entered 9800 PRO, and re-selected 1280x960 @ Millions of colors, the program created a new X configuration, and informed that a logout was required. I did that, and the desired video mode did then function properly. After doing that there are many more resolution options available in the Preferences -> Screen resolution application (not just the 800x600 and 640x480 as before), so that's more as it should be. My first impression is that the Preferences -> Screen Resolution application should in fact run /usr/bin/system-config-display or at least give the user a direct option to do so if they want more options than those presented by the screen resolution application since it by itself was unable to achieve the correct configuration whereas /usr/bin/system-config-display seems like it more generally can configure things properly, and gives more options as well!
Can you attach the output of running as root: kudzu -p -b ddc and lspci -v Also your current xorg.conf and that generated by system-config-display --reconfig Thanks
From the original submitter -- kudzu -p -b ddc Generates no output whatsoever on the system in question. The monitor is attached through a SVGA to BNC (RGB/H/V) cable into the BNC monitor inputs, and I'm not sure if this configuration is capable of sending DDC I/O to the monitor or not... maybe it's possible to multiplex on one of those inputs, I don't know the specification that well. Anyway it gave no output. I could try to reconnect it through the VGA input on the monitor if needed, though that isn't how it had been connected when I installed. lspci -v gives -- [root@et ~]# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.0 Capabilities: [c0] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: Interrupt Discovery and Configuration 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: cfe00000-cfefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: afd00000-cfcfffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 702c Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at cfffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 177 I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 I/O ports at dc00 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 I/O ports at e000 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 I/O ports at e400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 I/O ports at e800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7020 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 Memory at cffffd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South] Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South] Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 0080 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 193 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration Flags: fast devsel Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map Flags: fast devsel 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller Flags: fast devsel 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control Flags: fast devsel 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0002 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 169 Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Memory at cfef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at cfec0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] (Secondary) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0003 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32 Memory at b8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at cfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 [ I'll monitor this bug for additional comments / questions in the future; email is not a good way to reach me. Thanks for looking at this! I'll probably install FC3T3 tomorrow so I'll see if I can get further input with that OS.
Relooking makes me think that it is bug # 135361 Closing as duplicate - please retest when the fixed system-config-display is released, you should be able to rerun firstboot by rm -f /etc/sysconfig/firstboot /sbin/chkconfig --add firstboot And it'll run next boot *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135361 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.