[ltp] screen resolution is wrong after removing "nomodeset" from kernel line in menu.lst

Arian Kuschki linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:45:05 +0100


On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:39:33 -0500, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your system is probably mis-detecting a TV being attached.  See the
> bottom of this page for how to force connectors off from the kernel
> command line:
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting

Cheers Alex, this wasn't the actual problem but it helped bring me on the right track: I had to
adjust my kernel boot image to include the "radeon" module. Everything
works fine now.