Problem in splash screen resolution ahn in hosts
 

Hi all,


I recently posted the following in fedora mail list, but with no response :( . I hope any of you may help me with these two problems:

I get the following message when I log in (I'm translating it to English):
"I could not search the Internet address x1-6-00-c0-df-63-25. This will make GNOME not to work properly. It could be possible to correct by adding
x1-6-00-c0-df-63-25 to file etc/hosts"

I must say that x1-6-00-c0-df-63-25 is the name of my computer (found thru DHCP). I added this to /etc/hosts, but to no avail:confused: . How can I avoid this annoying message? I can connect to the internet anyway, but whenever I log in, I get the same message. By the way, how can I change this long name and put e.g. Duron1300?

One more thing: resolution in the splash screen is very low: I can hardly read "name" or "password". How can make it bigger? Afterwards when I'm logged in,
resolution is OK at 800x600.

TIA,

Well, that long sting is the name given to you by your ISP provider and yes I had the same trouble when I had RH8. I have since networked my house and provide my own IP's so I have no trouble. I fyou can statically set your host info with redhat-config-network then you can change it to whatever you wish. If not, there is for sure a fix but I never really needed it so I am sorry to say I don't know what it is.

Thanks for your reply, BigNate.

I could change my localhost name (following another thread in fedora lists). However, I still get the same message at the begginning of my session, although if I click "continue anyway" I log in normally and have access to the net.

Regarding the splash screen having very small text, I changed an option I had in grub vga=791 (resolution of 1024 x 768, I think) to vga=788 (800 x600, which is the resolution I have in my screen)... to no avail, I still have the small fonts.

.... I think I will reinstall fedora. This will be easier.

Thanks for your advice.