F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Feb 1 17:11:38 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 04:16 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-02-01 00:47 (GMT-0800) Per Bothner composed:
> 
> > Xorg.0.log is available at: http://per.bothner.com/tmp/F18-Xorg.0.log
> 
> It says your cmdline contains nomodeset.
> 
> > The former does seem to be loading the VESA driver.
> 
> Intel driver does not work with nomodeset on cmdline, so X falls back to 
> VESA, which doesn't do widescreen modes.

If you have 'nomodeset' on the cmdline, you must have either set it
yourself, or installed Fedora in 'Basic Graphics Mode', which causes
this to happen.
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