Re: [Discuss] display

2023-12-04 Thread Daniel M Gessel
Unfortunately, you don't have a GPU with drm drivers, but are using a drm layer for "dumb framebuffers" (simpledrm). This replaced fbdev drivers in Fedora 36 (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceFbdevDrivers). From what I've read, it depends on graphics config in the BIOS, and s

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-12-04 Thread dan moylan
daniel gessel wrote: > The tool "drm_info" will report details on available modes > (and much more) if you have relatively modern graphics > drivers. The package name has a hyphen instead of an > underscore: "drm-info". installed drm_info and got this: Node: /dev/dri/card0 ├───Driver: simpledrm

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Kent Borg
On 11/30/23 11:53, Jerry Feldman wrote: I think you might have been hacked Scary, some overflow persisted an exploit…? Suggestion: Does logging in as a different user have any problems? If not, do you have a recent backup of your home directory that you can compare with your current home di

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Daniel M Gessel
The tool "drm_info" will report details on available modes (and much more) if you have relatively modern graphics drivers. The package name has a hyphen instead of an underscore: "drm-info". On 2023-11-30 14:47, dan moylan wrote: On 2023-11-30 12:59, dan moylan wrote: BTW what kind of Mac

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Edward
Posted by Dan M. in an earlier message: going to settings displays, i see: orientation: landscape resolution: 1024x768 (4:3) refresh rate: 60.00 Hz there is no option for changing the resolution -- it's just a given. The desktop environment should have a GUI where the display

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
I think you might have been hacked -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 2:51 PM dan moylan wrote: > > daniel writes: > > On 2023-11-30 12:59, dan moylan wrote: > >>> BTW what kind of Mac are you using? Does it have an Apple, > >>> Intel, or AMD GPU (o

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread dan moylan
daniel writes: > On 2023-11-30 12:59, dan moylan wrote: >>> BTW what kind of Mac are you using? Does it have an Apple, >>> Intel, or AMD GPU (or is it old enough to be Nvidia)? >> no apple -- hp laptop running fc38. > Oh - what are "apple window pop-ups" on fc38? i have no idea. at least three

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Daniel M Gessel
On 2023-11-30 12:59, dan moylan wrote: going to settings displays, i see: orientation: landscape resolution: 1024x768 (4:3) refresh rate: 60.00 Hz there is no option for changing the resolution -- it's just a given. ?? What's the display's resolution and aspect ratio? _

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread dan moylan
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 12:00 PM dan moylan wrote: > yesterday, while browsing on firefox, i received a bunch of > apple window pop-ups, the last one telling me that my > computer was disabled. i was unable to kill the windows > or access my hp laptop running fc38. i rebooted, and > everything

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
Go to settings/Displays/resolution and see if that changed your aspect ratio -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 12:00 PM dan moylan wrote: > > yesterday, while browsing on firefox, i received a bunch of > apple window pop-ups, the last one telling m

Re: [Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread Daniel M Gessel
Only with regards to the display issue: did you try changing the display resolution, then back again? If some of the display HW parameters got messed up (horizontal timing, e.g.), that might restore them. BTW what kind of Mac are you using? Does it have an Apple, Intel, or AMD GPU (or is it ol

[Discuss] display

2023-11-30 Thread dan moylan
yesterday, while browsing on firefox, i received a bunch of apple window pop-ups, the last one telling me that my computer was disabled. i was unable to kill the windows or access my hp laptop running fc38. i rebooted, and everything was fine, except that the x direction looks stretched, perhap