From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010622 Description of problem: During both the expert & graphic modes of install the window is always too large for the screen therefore the buttons are missing. This is on a AMD 450 using a ATI|3D Rage Pro AGP with 8meg and a Hitachi Elite 611 (17") monitor. The card gets recogined correctly as a ATI Mach64 8meg. and the looking at the info logged on one of the consoles it says 'can't probe monitor' 16 Depth 800x600, which appears fine. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot off of cdrom 2. 3. Additional info: This does not just apply to this beta, it has gone on for a couple of past installs. I have been meaning to enter this bug before. I can use the text mode however.
This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
Is this just during install, or does it occur after install when running XFree86 also? I need to know exactly when this occurs. The specific screen it first occurs on would be a starter. I will need an XFree86 log to examine. The installer XFree86 log is /var/log/XFree86.9.log after an install. Please attach it. It sounds like X cannot perform a DDC probe on your monitor for some reason. Any additional info you can provide would also help.
Created attachment 23630 [details] Install Log For Beta1- Beta Hardware description #19
I think this was an operator errror. This machine normally runs another copy of redhat which was working just fine for another user. But I just reset the X/Y size for the monitor and reloaded and it worked fine of course. Of course this message 'can't probe monitor' is something I don't think I have ever seen for this monitor.
If your monitor is not DDC probeable (Plug'n'play) then you'll get that message. Do you have a CD or floppy that came with it? If you do can you look on it, and make a zipfile of any .inf files found? I might be able to add autoprobing if the monitor supports it. The Windows .inf files contain the needed info. If you find it and attach, please reopen the bug.
Like I said before this was just a stupid operator error, once I went back and tried another install this time setting the X/Y settings using the monitor controls it has worked just fine. Also this is a 17" Hitatchi 611 which is in the database, that is why I questioned the 'can't probe monitor' message, but like you say maybe this monitor is not plug & play. Anyway you can close this bug.
Yep, ok thanks.