On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 12:54 -0700, Jerry James wrote: > I upgraded my home machine to F16 on Wednesday, and liked it so much > that I decided to upgrade my work machine today. That didn't go quite > as smoothly. > > I've got a dual monitor setup at work, with what lspci calls "nVidia > Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)". I did a fresh install > with a DVD. After booting up, the initial screen (with the install > and troubleshoot options) came up on the left monitor; the right > monitor was blank. After choosing to install, X came up on both > monitors, but the windows were displayed on the right monitor only. > The left monitor was black, but I could move the mouse over there. > The problem, though, is that the windows were apparently 2 monitors > wide. The "back" and "forward" buttons were not visible, presumably > being one monitor width off to the right of the right monitor. I got > by for awhile by tabbing twice and hitting Enter to activate the > "forward" button, but when I got to the part where I had to decide > which drives are data and which need to be formatted, I could not go > on, as the arrows to move drives between the two areas were off the > screen also.
That's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725219 . > So I restarted, chose the VESA option, got the left monitor only, and > installed. Another option is just to disconnect one of the monitors for installation and plug it back in when you're done. > After installation, I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf (which specified the > VESA driver), and rebooted. But X still came up on only the left > monitor. Xorg.log indicated a drm failure. I found a new libdrm in > -testing, installed it, gave feedback on a typo in the udev rules, and > rebooted. No change. You need to remove 'nomodeset' from the kernel parameters. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
