From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: when the fedora core 3 is booted the graphical boot screens font is to small to read and when you get to the login screen you cant read the font but when you get in the desktop you can read it all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot 2. 3. Actual Results: same result Expected Results: can read font Additional info:
I can't reproduce that and the bug report give no hint of what specifically lead to this: what resolution are you using ? Is xfs started correctly without errors ? Can you check that your packages are pristine with rpm -Va especially that there is no report related to xorg packages. In the current state that bug cannot be processed by lack of reproductability. Daniel
800 by 600 ATI card default monitor 800 by 600 standard xpackages from fedora 3 packages are pristine xfs is started with out error if need any more info i can send you a sreeen shot
Did anything come of this? I too am having this problem. I've tried changing screen res, changin the desktop theme and graphical login, nothing seems to change the font size on the graphical login. Standard fedora 3 install, updated with yum (yum from redhat servers) 1024x768 current rez at 70mhz (changin the refresh rate also had no effect on the text size) The only error so to speak is the graphical interface fails to load 1 out of 3 times, reboot and it loads fine with no problems except for the very small font size. Haven't figured out what is causing it to hang, yet. Let me know if there was a fix for this or if you need more information. Thanks Terre
No I am still waiting for a fix
In the current state that bug cannot be processed by lack of reproductability, this is still true. Daniel
Thanks for the responses, Brian , Daniel. I've got a small update, though it might not be too helpful. Forgive me for not being a Linux expert, most of my linux is for my simple firewall, but it seems the problem is when the system attempts to detect the monitor. I had the problem after another rebuild, the system took a few minutes to load the x login screen and after it did load the small fonts were back. The one thing that bugged me the most was that the problem didn't occur when it was being build. So I tried a different monitor, figuring the only difference was the monitor. On the first boot the system took a minuete before loading the x login, but when it did the fonts were the correct size. I'm guessing that there is some display detection script that is doing something , though I donât have a clue if Iâm correct or where it would be located. Brian, have you tried the machine on a different monitor. Since it worked for mine, maybe it will work for yours. Daniel, is there a detection script or something like what I described that your know of?
when i tryed a different monitor a Philips magnavox monitor it still did it but when i use a gateway monitor it works it must be a problem with the display drivers for the philips magnavox monitors
When I upgraded from FC1 to FC3, this bug did not appear. The boot and login screens were as they should be. However, when I did a clean install of FC3, that is when the small unreadable fonts appeared. I'm just wondering if this is a problem with the monitor/display driver, shouldn't the fonts after logging in behave similarly (small and unreadable)? Why does it only affect the boot and login screens? Do those screens have a different configuration file where the default font sizes can be setup?
I think I have discovered what triggers the problem. It is the dpi of the X-server. The problem was disappeared on my TV-output when I did the following change in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, Section "Monitor": # DisplaySize 670 390 # May confuse rhgb boot font if that big DisplaySize 240 135 # Aspect 16:9
Fixed in rawhide.