Fedora Core 8 display resolution problem

[BryanH]

I've installed Parallels 5540 on Leopard, then installed Fedora Core 8. The install seems to have gone fine, but I'm having problems with screen resolution. The parallels window cuts off the bottom of the Fedora display, and I can't get the display configuration dialog to work. Attempting to run system-config-display gives the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 381, in <module>
dialog=xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, rhpxl.videocard.VideoCardInfo())
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 533, in __init__
self.state.recalc_mode()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rhpxl/xhwstate.py", line 387, in recalc_mode
self.colordepth = availableDepth[-1]
IndexError: list index out of range

I'm not a Linux guru, so I'm not sure where to start poking around. Any suggestions on how I can get my display resolution set? BTW, I've created a custom display size of 1600x1200 in the vm configuration that I'd like to use.

 

[schwartz]

Any news on the screen resolution and fedora 8 issue?

thanks,
Bill

 

[markymarkster]

Has there been any more progress with this? It appears that the last thread was over a month ago.

M

 

[eread]

Build 5608

Assuming you really meant 5584 ... yep, it's still broken.

Hi guys,

Build 5608 still doesn't seem to support changing display resolutions using the GUI tools in Fedora 8. Has anyone had success with this?

Thanks.

Evan.

 

[markymarkster]

No luck here. At this point I doubt they will ever fix it. Apparently it's not a huge issue for them and lies dormant somewhere at the bottom of the ethereal stack.

 

[John@Parallels]

There is temporary solution on forum to install packages from Fedora 7

 

[eread]

There is temporary solution on forum to install packages from Fedora 7

I'll give Fedora 7 a go.

I am really just playing around and getting Parallels to stretch its legs. I am in a trial period and will probably buy Parallels rather than Fusion (whose boot camp VM implementation didn't seem as good - though they have a new product out soon). Just trying to see what Parallels will do now and in the future. It'd be great if all current and past iterations of the top Linux distros will work fully featured eventually.

Evan.

 

[John@Parallels]

If you are in trial try also Parallels Server, in terms of end-user function it is cut version f upcoming Parallels Desktop version 4, Parallels Tools are working there