No screen in attempted install

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 04 April 2010 14:58:19 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The install completed, and updates have been run.  The next logical move
> > is to run system-config-display, since the current display is too big for
> > my screen and has terrible fonts in konsole.  However, s.c.d doesn't run:
> > 
> > # system-config-display
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module>
> >   
> >     dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig,
> > 
> > videocard.VideoCardInfo())
> > 
> >   File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, in
> > 
> > __init__
> > 
> >     if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1:
> > IndexError: index out-of-bounds
> 
> Try system-config-display --reconfig
> 
:-)  Having fun with this.  Obviously the card is too new to be supported :-(

I ran s-c-d as you suggested, set the monitor to generic lcd and the video 
card to Intel Graphics chipset - and it booted to a black screen.  I 
interrupted the boot, got to a text login, substituted the backup xorg.conf, 
logged in, and tried again.  This time I set the monitor as before, but set 
the video card to Vesa Compliant, maximum 1280x1024.  This time it booted up 
ok - but it is back to 1280 x 768 which it says is maximum - and that gives me 
a display too big to fit on screen.  The laptop is a 15.6" widescreen.  I 
suspect that if I could get it to accept 1280x800 it would probably fit the 
screen.

Anne
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