F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Fri Feb 1 18:01:30 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 08:46 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:

> That leaves the question is where did this come from in the first place?
> I did a clean install of Fedora 18.  However, I did have a few older
> partitions on the disk, and perhaps the Fedora 18 installer used
> data from those other partitions to initialize /etc/default/grub.
> Sees strange, but that is all I can think of.  Unless there is a
> bug in the Fedora 18 installer ...

If you foolishly installed with "basic video mode" or whatever thing
we're calling it these days, that'd have been nomodeset, and the install
would copy that into the initial grub config.

If you didn't, then there's a bug somewhere else.

- ajax



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