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Description of problem: I have an ASUS M6R laptop (http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/m6r/), which has 16:10 screen aspect ratio (1280x800 native resolution), and has an ATI Mobility Radeon X300 graphics chipset. When booted from Fedora 8 DVD to the graphics install, the display flickers (horizontally, if I can tell) to the point that the text on the screen is unreadable. Probably anaconda uses some modeline which is unusable on this chipset+display combo. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora8-i386-DVD.iso as of today, SHA1 sum 782a0e80de1b8e9f24e10e40055cc1b545390cbd Additional info: - text mode install works OK. - I run one of Fedora mirrors, so I've got the F8 DVD a bit early :-)
Yenyo, could I ask for /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf (in case you use the latter), please?
Created attachment 269631 [details] My current xorg.conf from F8
Created attachment 269641 [details] My xorg.conf from F7 I am sorry that my xorg.conf files are not minimal ones, but for getting an idea of which modes are needed on ASUS M6R, it should be sufficient.
Created attachment 269651 [details] X.org log file from F8
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This bug report has been ignored for the whole lifetime of F8. Should I bother to report bugs anymore? Anyway, I am now trying to upgrade my laptop to F10, and the graphics mode seems to be OK (it is not stretched to the whole screen, but it does not flicker). So the bug has been fixed somewhere between F8 and F10. Closing with CURRENTRELEASE.