FC6, laptop install problem

[bhilson]

Ok, I have searched for how to fix this and still haven't gotten my feet wet enough in FC6 to find a workaround.

My fiance asked me to add a Linux partition on her laptop after seeing the Desktop Effects from FC6. I've installed FC5 and 6 on several other computers and never run into this problem.

Basically, while installing everything is fine. It's the agreement acceptance that gets me stuck. Her monitor has a resolution of 1400 x 768 and all the installation options screens are a little stretched from I would guess a 1024 x 768 resolution. once done and the final reboot happens, it's as though the resolutions switched to 1600 x 1200 and all the acceptance options are located below and to the right of her screen. I keep playing around with Tab and Spacebar presses in the hopes that I can find the right box or button to press, but so far no luck.

Can I resize the resolution from Grub or does that need to be done before/during installation? If I can still do it now, how do I get to the command line to change it? I've pressed C while in Grub and get plenty of options related to Grub, but nothing about resolution changing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[nfraser]

Hi. Don't know how to do it from GRUB but if you are considering installing from scratch again use:

linux resolution=1400x768

hhen you get to the first installation screen (the one where where you get the option of pressing F1, F2 etc)

HTH

[bbfuller]

I haven't had this sort of problem with fc6 - yet - but when I did in fc5 I did the installation using the text based installer, see below, and then ran "system-config-display" from the command line afterwards.

To use the text installer (fc5 again but I doubt 6 is much different):

at the initial prompt to install type 'linux text' without the inverted commas.

If the machine has gone to first reboot you will probably see the ordinary fedora boot screen which gives you an option to press 'e' to edit commands, highlight the line that begins "kernel" and 'e' again. I edited out the rhgb and quiet parameters from the end of the line and appended 'text' in its place. Then tap return and 'b' to boot with those parameters.

You may eventually get to a distorted login screen this way, but holding down 'alt' and 'ctrl' while tapping 'F1' will get you to a login prompt where you should be able to run 'system-config-display'.

Worth a try if nothing else is working!