On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:42:01 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Beartooth TpBkR wrote: [...] >> I think I'm going to have to shut everything down, take the >> problem machine off the switch, and re-tinker with all three >> peripherals connected directly to it -- the way I quit having to do >> installs and upgrades three or four releases ago. >> >> Is there a less tedious way?? >> > Problem is that KVM switches emulate monitor keyboard and mouse to the > computers. This is because default BIOS settings prevent the computer > from booting if the keyboard/monitor aren't present What is odd is that throughout the last two or three Fedora releases, if not longer, these upgrades have succeeded with the KVM switch in place. > -- and ps/2 mouse > connectors are generally sucky and don't accept a mouse if it was > plugged in after the computer booted (could be a winderz problem, > actually...). Everything has been USB rather than PS/2 for a year or three. > Anyway, your KVM switch tells your machine that the monitor resolution > is 1400x1050 and F11 happily obeys (thinking the resolution info is > real). That certainly sounds right; but why is it only doing it now, after having refrained during previous upgrades?? > Setting it to 1680x1050 (only, no other resolutions!) in xorg.conf > should normally make it work. You'll need to restart X -- and for that, > you may need to reboot the machine. If you can't reboot, you can change > runlevel to 3 and then back to 5: > # init 3 > [... wait a little for console to settle down ...] # init 5 Went there, did that -- some days ago. No joy. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
