F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 08:46 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 01:16 AM, 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.
> 
> Thanks!  I manually edited /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> to remove the nomodeset options, and that fixed the problem.
> I then removed it from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub,
> so hopefully it won't re-appear.
> 
> That leaves the question is where did this come from in the first place?
> I did a clean install of Fedora 18.  However, I did have a few older
> partitions on the disk, and perhaps the Fedora 18 installer used
> data from those other partitions to initialize /etc/default/grub.
> Sees strange, but that is all I can think of.  Unless there is a
> bug in the Fedora 18 installer ...

Are you sure you didn't install in Basic Graphics Mode?
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