I have a Dell 23 Inch wide screen that the local computer shop had in had in supply. Dell E2310H it goes up to 1920x1080 On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 6:15 AM Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Luke Small <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:40:22 +0000 > > > > It doesn't show anything ever and without seeing the screen, I entered > > startkde4 with the normal user, per usual and it didn't show anything > even > > with a different xorg.conf > > Your dmesg shows: > > radeondrm0: 1024x768, 32bpp > > Unless your monitor really has 1024x768 as its resolution (or was > disconnected) this probably means that your monitor is not detected > properly. The inteldrm(4) upgrade broke this on some specific > hardware combinations. Unfortinately I don't have the hardware to > reproduce this and fix it. > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:06 AM Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:22:17AM +0000, Luke Small wrote: > > > > It fails to show anything other than a faint snow on the screen. Do > you > > > > expect that it will work on a DVI? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is that in console mode, once the kernel switches to KMS graphics, or > > > only once you launch the X server ? > > > > > > In the latter case you can probably force it to use the 'modesetting' > > > driver instead of the 'ati' one by creating a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file > > > containing just : > > > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "Modesetting" > > > Driver "modesetting" > > > EndSection > > > > > > see the modesetting(4) manual page for some options that may help > > > (SWcursor, AccelMethod) > > > > > > -- > > > Matthieu Herrb > > > > > >
