On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Last time a monitor bit the dust on me, the local shops were > already carrying wide ones all but exclusively, blast them -- such > dimensions were mythical beasts when even the newest of my machines were > built. > > After much tedious labor and more bitter cursing, I got Fedora > *and* the monitor (HP w2207h) to agree to a compromise. Fedora treats it > as a 1680x1050 flat panel LCD, but with a choice to *use* it in 1280x1024 > mode. > > And all the machines in the house but two are cheerfully running > F10 that way -- all but two, my wife's and my main one. Those are the > ones I always upgrade last -- hers because she's writing whole books on > it, and I do elaborate multiple backups before any big change; and mine > because it has a second hard drive with XP installed. (I have yet to > manage to get any of my GPSs to talk with any of my proprietary topo map > software under wine or CXO.) > > Today I decided to tackle my main machine. Anaconda launches -- > but before it starts asking about language, keyboard, etc, I get the > dread "signal out of range; set to 1680x1050". But it has never ever yet > let me get to the normal means of resetting the display. All I can do is > hit the reset button, and start over. > > I know there is some slick trick for getting around this, which > always seems adequate when I recall or reconstruct it; but I don't recall > now. > > Clue, please, someone?? > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > I would do the following: At the installation screen type "linux text" to perform your installation. Don't forget to install "system-config-display". It is not installed by default. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
