F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

[Felix Miata]

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.

> xrandr output:
>
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
> default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>      1280x1024       0.0*
>      1024x768        0.0
>      800x600         0.0
>      640x480         0.0

1280x1024 is usually the highest available VESA mode.
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