Bug 15410 - MGA5 Classical Installer does not look right in graphics mode (resolution bigger than 1280x768 with UEFI)
Summary: MGA5 Classical Installer does not look right in graphics mode (resolution big...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2015-03-03 07:48 CET by Vladimir Zawalinski
Modified: 2015-05-22 13:07 CEST (History)
3 users (show)

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Graphical installer layout not good (901.37 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-03-03 07:51 CET, Vladimir Zawalinski 		Details
report.bug (177.97 KB, application/octet-stream)
2015-03-04 09:50 CET, Vladimir Zawalinski 		Details
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Description Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 07:48:30 CET 
Description of problem:

Test laptop:  NVIDIA GEforce 870 card  + proprietary driver as automatically installed by Mageia.EFI install, i7CPU, 

When character install finishes and display changes to GUI, the display shows a large grey square to the left, and the language selector screen to the right. The whole thing looks bad and could do with a tidy-up before general availability.


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Comment 1 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-03 07:51:41 CET 
Created attachment 5977 [details]
Graphical installer layout not good

Note the large grey square to one side and the language selector on the other. This laylout lasts throught the entire graphical installer process.

No other display issues anywhere else.

CC: (none) => vzawalin1

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2015-03-03 15:36:08 CET 
Vladmir, can you do the following:
1) attach a USB key,
2) rerun the installer
3) then go to console (alt+ctrl+f2)
4) type the "bug" command
5) attach (not paste) the report.bug file found on the usb key to this bug report

Thomas, the installer only supports 640x486, 800x600 or 1024x768.
Why do we end on such a high resolution on some UEFI machines?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Summary: MGA5 Classical Installer does not look right in graphics mode => MGA5 Classical Installer does not look right in graphics mode (resolution bigger than 1280x768 with UEFI)

claire robinson 2015-03-03 16:01:28 CET

CC: (none) => eeeemail

Comment 3 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-04 09:50:05 CET 
Created attachment 5985 [details]
report.bug

Display res was 1080 x 1920. I aborted out of the install soon after the language selection to keep the report to a manageable size.
Comment 4 Thomas Backlund 2015-03-09 22:34:49 CET 
(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #2)
> Vladmir, can you do the following:
> 1) attach a USB key,
> 2) rerun the installer
> 3) then go to console (alt+ctrl+f2)
> 4) type the "bug" command
> 5) attach (not paste) the report.bug file found on the usb key to this bug
> report
> 
> Thomas, the installer only supports 640x486, 800x600 or 1024x768.
> Why do we end on such a high resolution on some UEFI machines?

the grub gfx auto detection detects more than we want,

I will try forcing it to try 1024x768, then 800x600, and lastly 640x480 and see how it behaves in uefi mode
Comment 5 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-03-10 05:35:19 CET 
Thomas, the bug report is in comment 4 of Bug 15410 above. I can do it again, but it will take me a little more time to get to it.
Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-21 12:42:29 CEST 
Vladimir, is this bug fixed for you?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 7 Vladimir Zawalinski 2015-05-22 12:52:51 CEST 
(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #6)
> Vladimir, is this bug fixed for you?

Yes, Samuel. It was fixed quite early on, but I forgot to notify.  It can be closed as fixed.
Comment 8 Rémi Verschelde 2015-05-22 13:07:48 CEST 
Closing then.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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