Bug 61952 - Fonts look _awful_ on a ThinkPad 600X Laptop
Summary: Fonts look _awful_ on a ThinkPad 600X Laptop
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: skipjack-beta1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-26 06:59 UTC by Dimitrie O. Paun
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-04-03 03:30:58 UTC
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Description Dimitrie O. Paun 2002-03-26 06:59:41 UTC
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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?

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:07:41 UTC
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.


Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-26 19:50:36 UTC
Boot with 'vga=791' and the right thing should happen.

Comment 3 Bill Crawford 2002-04-03 03:30:53 UTC
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.


Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-04-10 20:26:36 UTC
The workaround is to specify a VESA mode via the 'vga=' parameter to the installer.

Comment 5 Bill Crawford 2002-04-10 23:28:20 UTC
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.



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