F9: The good and the bad

[Rick Bilonick]

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 07:25 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008 11:03:23 Robert McBroom wrote:
> > > lanas wrote:
> > > Video is:
> > > 
> > > Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > the display is left shifted on the Dell D1028L monitor.
> 
> I encountered the same symptom on a Dell E520 with a Dell E228WFP
> 1680x1050 monitor.  My display adapter is an Intel 82G965.  An
> additional symptom is that all fonts have their top ~ 10-15% clipped
> off.  This makes an O look like a U.
> 
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446293 
> 
> -- 
> Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
> 

I cannot get F9 to work with the laptop display in the HP 2133 (came
with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop SP1). I can run F9 only with an
external (LCD) monitor attached to the VGA port. Very weird. This was
after forcing it to boot into a text console. The xorg.conf showed that
the openchrome driver was selected and used but will not work with the
laptop's lcd display. I switched to the vesa driver (at least it works
with the external monitor) but still the laptop's display is blank.

I installed F8 from the LiveCD and other than setting acpi=off (not
setting this didn't seem to hurt anything - just avoided an error
message), everything works.

So far, I don't have a clue why F8 works fine and F9 is so weird. F8
automatically selected vesa and works fine. F9 automatically selected
openchrome (which would seem to be correct) but then can't display on
the laptop's lcd panel. SLED SP1 and SP2 work as expected. I will also
try a Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD. (F9's LiveCD had the same problems as the F9
x86 full DVD.)

Also, at some point in trying things, F9 would come up with a display of
"acceptable" vesa displays but none of the codes (vga=xxx) did any good.

With F8 I'm not getting the best possible resolution (1280x768) but only
getting 1024x768 probably due to using vesa. Overall, I prefer F8 over
SLED SP2 (SP1, except for networking, had too many strange bugs, SP2
fixed these but screwed up networking a bit). I would of course prefer
F9 to work with the laptop's display!!!

Rick B.