Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-06 Thread David C. Rankin
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 15:50:02 Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0700, Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will NOT run. It errors out on start

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 23:31 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/Xorg.0.log Install xf86-video-ati, the vesa driver you're using now is limited to standard VESA resolutions, which usually excludes widescreen resolutions.

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates, New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader).

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread christopher floess
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates, New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-04 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:17:38 -0600 Dan McGee dpmc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:31:20 -0600 David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Listmates, New drive for my laptop so I dedicated

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-04 Thread David C. Rankin
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 23:31:20 David C. Rankin wrote: The problem I have is that my laptop is stuck in 1152x864 resolution. For the text install that is fantastic, but when you start kde -- not so good. (should be 1440x900) The card is an RS690M (radeon 1200) and the radeon driver was

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-04 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will NOT run. It errors out on start complaining about the text mode size being too big. Vim and mc handle the resolution without any problem.

Re: [arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900?? [SOLVED]

2009-11-04 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 14:43 -0700, Byron Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: A negative side effect of the new console resolution is that vi will NOT run. It errors out on start complaining about the text mode size being too big. Vim and mc handle

[arch-general] Mayday - Installed Fresh Archlinux on Laptop - Resolution stuck 1152x864, need 1440x900??

2009-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates, New drive for my laptop so I dedicated it to Arch. Net install with 2009.08 went fine (although there really should be a warning when you leave install WITHOUT configuring the bootloader). [the /arch/setup menu autoadvances when you leave Configure System and if you click Done and