Screen resolutions

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 09:52 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 04/08/2015 09:31 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > My Lenovo X1 has the 2560 x 1440 screen. When running Debian
> > Sid/GNOME, the displays settings dialogue shows all the possible
> > resolutions with the 16:10, 16:9, 5:4 and 4:3 aspect rations. When
> > running Fedora Rawhide/GNOME the same dialogue shows only the 
> > native
> > resolution and 4:3 aspect ration resolutions. As far as I am aware
> > this is both of them "out of the box" in that I have not knowingly
> > fiddled with anything.
> > 
> > Is this to be expected (I hope not as I want 16:9 and 16:10
> > resolutions available), or have I failed to do something during 
> > Fedora
> > Rawhide/GNOME setup that has led to this?
> 
> I see the same problem with my ASUS ultrabook that has the same 
> resolution screen. I 
> haven't debugged it but either the i915 module (kernel) or Xorg 
> driver is not 
> providing the correct modes. This issue has been around for a while.
> 
> You won't want 16:10 modes as 2560x1440 is a 16:9 resolution.
> 
> Please open a bug report. I'll CC on it.

I made a first pitch at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211058

I am still not enmtirely sure what constitutes a really good initial 
report, so try and get people to tell me what further information is 
needed…
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