F18 doesn't see full laptop screen resolution

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 15:41 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 10:44 -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> 
> > Though it seems a bug to set the installed default mode line to
> > nomodeset based on whether one boots up the live DVD in basic graphics
> > mode. Better to install the settings appropriate for the hardware
> > *plus* some kind of "safe mode" in the grub menu.
> 
> (To be clear: when I said "foolishly" in my other mail, I meant it in
> the sense that we're fools for making that trap so easy to fall into.
> Apologies if offense was taken; none was intended.)
> 
> Well, we don't normally set video parameters in the grub config at all.
> The theory is that you'll only hit 'nomodeset' if you had to use it to
> install, and in that case if we then defaulted to booting a KMS
> configuration you'd probably be booting a configuration that you _know_
> won't work, since it's the same kernel as you just used to run the
> installer (if you're not enabling updates at install time).
> 
> So really, to me, this suggests that we should hide the 'nomodeset'
> install option a little better.  I suspect that showing it early in the
> install process suggests to people that it's somehow more likely to
> succeed and therefore desirable.

I don't see how we could show it any _later_ - it has to be before the
kernel is booted, obviously. Or do you just mean 'put it lower in the
list of options'? I don't know, though. I've been doing this for several
years now and I can count on one hand the number of cases where people
have picked 'basic graphics mode' without actually needing to, including
this one. I don't think it's really a problem. You already have to dig
down into an 'advanced' menu to find it.
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