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Bug 663411

Summary: Run graphical installer at full resolution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: jstodola, pbonzini, pholica, qwan, syeghiay
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 6.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.21.114-1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-04-18 19:44:06 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Blocks: 694760    
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Description Flags
screenshot from vnc
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first graphical screen
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Screenshot - different sizes of VNC 6.0 vs. 6.1 none

Description Dave Cantrell 2010-12-15 17:57:46 UTC
Remove 800x600 screen limitation in anaconda and just run the window at the screen maximum as set up by X.

(Implemented on master in 6ad3167cf4d07f53135f4dff16ff254363fa9a83)

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2010-12-15 18:00:04 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has 
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed 
products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2010-12-16 16:11:19 UTC
One problem with this is that the artwork is designed with 800x600 in mind, so it's likely to look a little stupid if we go to fullscreen mode.  Check out rawhide to see what I mean.

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2011-01-06 21:26:37 UTC
We also need to be sure to pull in 13ccad30fb6e46588c6ef4b5be3e9125965bea20 or livecds will act weird.

Comment 5 Jan Stodola 2011-01-27 09:27:57 UTC
Created attachment 475568 [details]
screenshot from vnc

Hi, something got broken in anaconda-13.21.91-1.el6. When vnc-mode installation is running, anaconda is not displayed correctly, see attached screenshot. I will attach logs from the installation. Tried on s390x and ppc64.

Comment 7 Dave Cantrell 2011-01-27 18:19:25 UTC
Easy:

diff --git a/vnc.py b/vnc.py
index 11e3d88..2c7bba3 100644
--- a/vnc.py
+++ b/vnc.py
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ class VncServer:
 
         # Lets start the xvnc.
         xvnccommand =  [ "Xvnc", ":%s" % self.display, "-nevershared",
-                        "-depth", "16", "-geometry", "800x600", "-br",
+                        "-depth", "16", "-br",
                         "IdleTimeout=0", "-auth", "/dev/null", "-once",
                         "DisconnectClients=false", "desktop=%s" % (self.desktop,),
                         "SecurityTypes=%s" % SecurityTypes, "rfbauth=%s" % rfbauth ]

Comment 8 Jan Stodola 2011-01-31 09:52:22 UTC
Created attachment 476150 [details]
first graphical screen

There is one more issue with graphical installation mode (both vnc and GUI in KVM). Image on the first graphical screen is not displayed correctly, it should be wider (see attachment). The same image is displayed while packages are being installed, but in this case the image is displayed correctly.

anaconda-13.21.93-1.el6
RHEL6.1-20110130.n.0

Comment 9 Jan Stodola 2011-02-01 12:39:41 UTC
Also graphical mode using X11 forwarding on s390x needs to be fixed. Installation starts with minimal size of the window and resizes during going through the installation process. Size of the window is only increasing to hold all elements on each screen. See attachment for anaconda logs (killall -USR2 anaconda).
This is with anaconda-13.21.93-1.el6

Comment 11 Martin Banas 2011-02-01 14:12:24 UTC
Created attachment 476403 [details]
Screenshot - different sizes of VNC 6.0 vs. 6.1

The default VNC installation has now resolution 1024x768, which doesn't look good at all. Could you please make vnc installation with default resolution 800x600, like it was in RHEL6? (see the screenshot)

Thanks

Comment 12 Dave Cantrell 2011-02-03 15:15:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> Created attachment 476403 [details]
> Screenshot - different sizes of VNC 6.0 vs. 6.1
> 
> The default VNC installation has now resolution 1024x768, which doesn't look
> good at all. Could you please make vnc installation with default resolution
> 800x600, like it was in RHEL6? (see the screenshot)
> 
> Thanks

I just pushed the image scaling problem where the welcome graphic is scaled strangely.  We're not moving back to forcing 800x600 for vnc.  It looks much better now.

Also, 13.21.94 contains the image scaling fixes, which is not in a nightly that you can see yet.

Comment 14 Paolo Bonzini 2011-04-13 13:19:35 UTC
The screenshot of comment 5 is the same as the one in bug 694760.  The maximum resolution reported by xrandr is 800x600, but this is ignored by anaconda.

Comment 15 Dave Cantrell 2011-04-13 14:23:02 UTC
*** Bug 694760 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 Dave Cantrell 2011-04-13 16:18:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> The screenshot of comment 5 is the same as the one in bug 694760.  The maximum
> resolution reported by xrandr is 800x600, but this is ignored by anaconda.

Bug #694760 was unduped from this one, so I guess you want to track it there.  I'm moving this one to ON_QA.  NOTE:  I do not care which bug tracks this particular issue, but we only need one.

Comment 17 Pavel Holica 2011-04-14 11:12:07 UTC
Created attachment 492048 [details]
logs.tar.gz

I've just hit issue described in Comment 5 on i386 Client inside xen virtual machine (paravirtualized).

Putting back to assigned.

Comment 18 Dave Cantrell 2011-04-18 19:44:06 UTC
This is now a duplicate of bug #694760, marking it as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 694760 ***