Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 99541
No way to configure X11 screen resolution in anaconda anymore?
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:48 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: In earlier released we had at least the chance to configure our X11 screen resolution. Now anaconda seems to automatically choose 1024x768 by default without asking. On my Iiyama VisionMaster Pro 410 17" monitor this is way to small. Normally I run at least 1280x1024. After the installation was finished I used redhat-config-xfree86 the raise the resolution but this tool only allowed me 1200x800 as a maximum. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to set X11 screen resolution when installing Severn Beta1 2. 3. Additional info:
It's an even bigger deal now that there is a graphical boot sequence without testing the xconf durring the install process. As I discovered today, if you set the wrong resolution, the boot sequence and first boot programs will display garbage. Solution: Add xconfigtest back to anaconda or have first boot and graphical boot use 256 colors 640X480.
I concur. I have a 1400x1050 laptop LCD screen and even though I manually selected 'Generic 1400x1050' I end up with 1024x768 anyway.
I got the limited choice of resoutions once myself. For me, I found that I got the wacky maximum resolutions only when my monitor was not set properly. When I set the monitor first, I could go back to the resolution selection and all my available resolutions had become available. My guess is that some small part of this bug is incorrect monitor detection.
That is really bizarre, since I selected the monitor manually from the list - 'Generic 1400x1500 LCD'. My monitor was detected using DDC probing but I thought I'd play it safe and make sure there's no way X tries to display > 1400x1050. Alas it actually seemed to do the opposite
I can confirm comments #2 and #4 by Michel here on my Compaq Evo laptop (I also selected Generic 1400x1500 LCD during install). I had to manually select the correct resolution after installation (though it didn't work the first time, so after I killed X I still got the default 1024x768 resolution). Hope it helps, Tadej
We have removed the X resolution screen and this configuration can be done post-install with the redhat-config-xfree tool. However the other issue here appears to be that the monitor manually selected during the installation process is not used to create the XFree86 config file for the installed system? Or is it that the default resolution is still 1024x768, even though a '1400x1050 LCD' was selected as the monitor?
Closing due to inactivity. Please reopen if you have any further information to add to this bug report