Description of problem: I just booted F9PR (x86_64 Live KDE) on my Dell Inspiron 1720 and it was anything but usable. The resolution is so small, even rhgb gets messed up (puts the progress bar over the artwork). The pixels are that big, I can't read things written in normal font size (KDE menu, display settings dialogs), because one letter consists only of a few pixels. Well, I really can't read something, so its hard to find anything out. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot LiveCD 2. "Enjoy" Actual results: Resolution unusable Expected results: At the very least 800x600, better 1024x768. 1920x1200 supported by hardware (and working fine with nVidia's proprietary driver and F8). I remember to have F8 working without the proprietary driver as well - can't remember the resolution back then, tho...but it was usable. Additional info: I then tried to logout, which resulted in a black screen with some pink/white blinking bars (not always the same size/position/etc). Oh, the component is a wild guess. I don't know which driver was used.
Created attachment 302915 [details] KDE 4 with unusable resolution.
Created attachment 302916 [details] KDE4 starting with unusable resolution.
Created attachment 302918 [details] rhgb with unusable resolution.
Created attachment 302919 [details] after logout laptop switches off after some time (<1min), tho.
Created attachment 302920 [details] grub working fine ...ok, that's been the last image. sorry for the bad quality, they've been made with my mobile phone. uh, I forgot to mention, that I didn't boot from CD but from liveUSB...sorry. no persistence, tho.
Even though you have no true persistence is available you should be able to get some files stored somewhere (scp, ftp, another USB drive, something). So, would you be able to attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log, or maybe something in /tmp, I am not sure) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 302979 [details] Xorg.0.log Xorg.0.log shows that no config file was loaded, and indeed. there's been no xorg.conf. Even tried updatedb && locate xorg.conf and it only showed the man page.
Created attachment 302980 [details] dmesg maybe some other infos will help, so I'll attach what came to my mind. btw. the vt is working/usable, so I can do cmd line stuff to help solve this.
Created attachment 302981 [details] lsmod
Created attachment 302982 [details] lspci
Comment on attachment 302981 [details] lsmod actually this is the lsmod output. the "messages" file seems to be empty.
Your laptop is made of lies: (II) NV(0): LVDS native size 738x414 So we try to pick a mode that fits in that size. What's the output of 'hexdump -C /proc/acpi/video/*/*/EDID' ?
How does it come then, that it worked fine with F8? I've executed the above within my installed F8 and not within the live system, I hope that's ok. Just tell me otherwise. Output is: $ hexdump -C /proc/acpi/video/*/*/EDID 00000000 3c 6e 6f 74 20 73 75 70 70 6f 72 74 65 64 3e 0a |<not supported>.| * 00000080
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