pxeboot: good news and bad news

[David Mack]

For the first time in more than a week I was able to do a successful
PXE install of Rawhide. Hooray! After logging in and running startx
(install set it to runlevel 3) it brought up a gnome desktop and it
didn't freeze part way through the initial rendering. More hooray!
Then the screen turned solid white. Booooo! Logging in from another
machine and killing compiz got me my screen back. Hoorayish!

What can I put in the kickstart config file to tell F10 to start
metacity instead of compiz?

Also, X is a bit brain-damaged about possible screen resolutions. How
do I tell it that my monitor can do 1280x1024 instead of being maxed
at 1024x768? (I would like a solution that doesn't involve
resurrecting xorg.conf.)

Thanks,
Dave

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

David Mack wrote:
>  For the first time in more than a week I was able to do a successful
>
>  PXE install of Rawhide. Hooray! After logging in and running startx 
>  (install set it to runlevel 3) it brought up a gnome desktop and it 
>  didn't freeze part way through the initial rendering. More hooray!  
versions of
kernel, x, driver etc..?
driver in use ?
does it match the hardware ?

>  What can I put in the kickstart config file to tell F10 to start 
>  metacity instead of compiz? 
just guessing:
- compiz
   {this would keep out compiz-fusion, compiz-fusion-gnome, compiz-gnome,
since they require compiz}.

>  Also, X is a bit brain-damaged about possible screen resolutions.
Wonder if your display gives out edid info, and if it does, whether it
gives out correct info ?
monitor-edid  -> monitor-probe can show what the edid sesnse methods
detect, (i end up at vt1  press f7 to return to X) or look in
/var/log/X... log

>  How do I tell it that my monitor can do 1280x1024 instead of being
>  maxed at 1024x768? 
system-config-display = System|Admin|Display
configure display, set size, logout/in

hth,

DaveT