Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [...] What does System-admin-display say in the display tab? I find that I need to manually set that sometimes. I think I said system-config-display the first time, had the wrong WM in front of me. On the first tab (Settings), it tells me I have a setting of 1280x1024 (offering only smaller others), and millions of colors; on the second (Hardware), it acknowledges what I think I told it -- that I have an LCD panel 1680x1050. (Iirc, it had supposed I had a CRT; at least one machine did.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED
BeartoothHOS wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:12:10 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: [...] What does System-admin-display say in the display tab? I find that I need to manually set that sometimes. I think I said system-config-display the first time, had the wrong WM in front of me. On the first tab (Settings), it tells me I have a setting of 1280x1024 (offering only smaller others), and millions of colors; on the second (Hardware), it acknowledges what I think I told it -- that I have an LCD panel 1680x1050. (Iirc, it had supposed I had a CRT; at least one machine did.) What I have been doing is use the admin-display to get the display type right, check the video card (never had to change it), and then I could set size in the system-prefderences-hardware-screenResolution. If that sequence doesn't show the large sizes I have no other tricks (and haven't needed them to date). -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:22:17 +, I BeartoothHOS wrote: [] Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one -- and it did, with vesa instead of nv. After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024, not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to. The same thing happened last night and this morning with my #1 machine, and the same mitigation worked : vesa instead of nv, and 1280x1024 instead of 1680x1050, with at leas one stage having been done with ssh from another machine. (I didn't think soon enough to try booting it into init 3; my guess is that that'd've worked too.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED
BeartoothHOS wrote: On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: the the Preferences-Display to set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one machine. I got an error message denying the existence of --xorg Wow, did I misremember that one. The method is Xorg -configure and must be run as root. I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself in the foot. Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one -- and it did, with vesa instead of nv. After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024, not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to. What does System-admin-display say in the display tab? I find that I need to manually set that sometimes. I think I said system-config-display the first time, had the wrong WM in front of me. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot : MITIGATED
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: BeartoothThpd30 wrote: Follow-ups set to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general [] Somewhere among all the above, I got disgusted with the display, which turned out to be 800x600 -- despite being connected directly (no KVM switch!) to the 1680x1050 monitor. The app I tried to correct with turned out (later, on another machine) *not* to be system-config-display, but something called gnome-display-properties; so I edited 1680x1050 into xorg.conf. Right about this point I cringe, I have had bad luck editing xorg.conf in recent Fedora. I hear you loud clear; I've spent a lot of miserable time in that durance vile, on and off this list. Otoh, thanks to this discussion, I'm back on the machine now. In general Fedora will like you better if you don't have xorg.conf, which may have been related to part of the problem. That's news. I knew that it no longer existed by default ... At the recommendation of a number of people I use system-config-hardware to be sure the display type is set right, How do you get that? Neither yum nor PackageKit (nor yet yum whatprovides) seem to know aught of it. the the Preferences-Display to set the resolution. Failing in this use system-config-display --xorg to create a new file, then edit that. Only needed to do that on one machine. I got an error message denying the existence of --xorg I make no claim to be an expert, I just have learned not to shoot myself in the foot. Between your post and Tom Horsley's, I happened to think of changing the driver -- and did, from nv to vesa. I don't now recall exactly what all else I did, but I do remember an oddity. At one point, I tried again to edit xorg.conf, and got a message saying it didn't exist. I ran system-config-display instead to create one -- and it did, with vesa instead of nv. After all that, I can still only set the display up to 1280x1024, not 1680x1050 (which this machine, I'm sure, did support before). But that's within the monitor's own ability to adapt to. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
