Fedora 13 on Dell E6410 screen resolution problem

[Tony Molloy]

On Wednesday 25 August 2010 16:51:16 Greg Woods wrote:
> I never have been able to get Fedora 13 to work. There is something
> about the recent kernels; I can't get it to work at anywhere near the
> resolution it is capable of with either nouveau or the Nvidia
> proprietary driver.
> 
> I did get Fedora 12 to work. It was a convoluted process. The installer
> worked OK using an external monitor. I never could get X to boot
> properly after that under nouveau, with either the LCD display or the
> external monitor. I got a blank screen on the LCD and a warning from the
> monitor that this timing could not be displayed. So what I ended up
> doing was booting non-graphically, installing the Nvidia driver, then
> starting X. With a bit of fiddling with nvidia-settings, I am *finally*
> able to use X at the full LCD resolution (1440x990).
> 
> Using F12 instead of F13 is an acceptable workaround for now, but of
> course sooner or later I will need to move forward. I may actually give
> the F14 beta a try just to see if it will work. Does anyone know what it
> is about the recent kernels? nouveau won't work post-install even with
> "nomodeset", and the Nvidia driver will install but fails to initialize
> the chip when X is started (I just get an error to that effect in
> Xorg.0.log).
> 
> --Greg

I will also give the f14-Alpha a try an dsee if it works any better.

Tony