From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: The fonts used in the installer make your eyes bleed, on my laptop. It seems things are a bit scaled up, and because of that, they get into a terrible shape. Should be fixed, make the whole thing look really, really bad. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run the installer 2.look 3.cry :) Actual Results: eyes hurt! Expected Results: extreme oculary damage Additional info: what more can I say?
It sounds like your laptop has to scale (poorly) to run 800x600. What is the native resolution of your laptop display? If you use a vga=xxx, where xxx is the appropriate framebuffer mode number (look at the help at the boot prompt, it should list common modes.
Boot with 'vga=791' and the right thing should happen.
I had exactly this problem installing on a Dell Latitude CPi, it goes into a "stretched" mode or something. Oddly, a text mode install works perfectly.
The workaround is to specify a VESA mode via the 'vga=' parameter to the installer.
Thing is though, that running in text mode, it happily goes to 800x600 without stretching, it's just when X starts up that it "stretches" ... is there no way to make the framebuffer-based server not do the stretched display? vga=791 does indeed fix the framebuffer up to native resolution, though.