F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Sat Feb 2 19:00:29 UTC 2013


On Feb 1, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Maybe what should happen is when basic graphics mode has been selected at installation, an extra stanza should be added to grub.cfg, an additional one containing nomodeset and labeled something like failsafe or nomodeset fallback or video setup mode, and the default/first omitting it.

Isn't the context booting of install media? On BIOS computers this uses isolinux, not GRUB. UEFI computers use GRUB2. I don't know how sophisticated the graphics mode settings can be in isolinux without putting more modules on the media and a more sophisticated isolinux.cfg.

Chris Murphy


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