I've noticed this resolution problem with RHEL, CentOS and Fedora on my D620. When I get into the desktop it doesn't support the correct 1440x900 resolution, yet on Ubuntu it works fine. Matt On 4/13/07, Lonny Selinger <lonny at bangtherockstogether.net> wrote: > Ok so the install has been seamless on a few machines and I decided to try it > on my laptop (a Dell D620). I had everything working great and kicked it > around a bit and then figured, if I'm going to keep this on my laptop I'll > need to reformat everything, enable some encrypted filesystems etc ... not a > big deal ... kind of > > Here's the problem, the laptop has a resolution of 1440x900 and X wont start > up on it therefore, I do not get the graphical installer ... not a big deal if > you don't want to customize your volume groups and logical volumes, but I > would like to. > > So far I've tested graphical installers from Mandriva and Knoppix and they > will actually load a graphical installer but CentOS 5 does not. Does anyone > know if there is a way for me to get the GUI installer so I can monkey with > VG's? currently these options aren't available in the curses menu set up. > > > And yes I know I could just as easily create regular etx3 filesystems with no > LVM2 stuff (no I'm not going to be adding more drives any time soon to my > laptop) but it would be nice to know it's possible. I was using LVM2 on my > last laptop and it was handy having the ability to grow and shrink some > filesystems. > > I know it's probably not on the agenda from the upstream provider either but > automating the encryption of newley created filesystems at the point of > install would be sweet too :D > > -- > Lonny > -- > "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, > you just need to work ON it." > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >