Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6037
problem with resolution when starting X
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:38:54 EST
I use an exotic graphic card ( i740 clone ) on my PC, and it seems to work pretty well under linux redhat 6.1; however, during the install process, when I chose the first option ( with graphic rendition ), my screen went to 640x480 resolution; well, this is not a problem for me, but it is for the installer, which seems to work only with the resolution at least at 800x600. It is very frustrating; so a low resolution (640x480) installer should be present! Remember the installer is the first thing viewed by linux newbies, so if at first glance he/she see that, it can give a very bad impression...
The installer runs at 640x480, so I am not sure what problem you are seeing afterall. We picked the lowest common demoninator which is 640-480 at 16 colors. Please submit more details of the problems which you are seeing and I will be glad to help you work through the problems.
Well, the PC I use is a home-made, with ASUS motherboard, PII processor, and i740 clone graphic card ( On-Speed ). When running into gfx install, dialog boxes overlaps on the lower right part of the screen; For example, some buttons on the left are partials; list boxes are also partials. Virtual screening is not active, so I cannot access to some of the parts of the screen. As now, it is possible that the installer works at 640x480 and my screen going at a lower resolution, but this is confusing; my video card has 3D engine, 8MB of memory, so this kind of problem should not occur. Can you give me a trick to send you screenshots ? (it should be possible, though ?!? )
Sounds like there is a timing problem with your video card. I would recommend running the installer in TUI, as we are just taking the timings that the video card supplies to the installer.