Marcel,
Thanks for the comments regarding my inability to get screen resolution above
1280x1024 on my new PC running Fedora 32 (originally 31).
> I do not think that your kernel is the issue. Support for that GPU should be
> in
> the mainline kernel since years.
That's what I thought when I ordered the machine a few weeks ago. But when it
arrived and I installed Fedora31 a week ago using a 'live' usb drive, which had
previously been used to install F31 successfully on a laptop, the installation
process did not work unless it was done in low resolution mode -- otherwise the
screen just froze and installation could not proceed.
After I had F31 working on the new PC it refused to go into a higher resolution
and xrandr offered only 1280x1024. Nothing I tried got past that limit. So I
then tried upgrading to F32. I still could not get a higher resolution.
I bought the machine from Chilblast.com using their configuration menu very
recently (dlivered 13 days ago).
Because all my attempts to increase the resolution had failed (several days
wasted) I assumed the problem must have been that the CPU I had chosen was a
very new Intel model for which appropriate drivers were not yet available:
Intel Core i5-9400 Coffee Lake CPU, 6 Cores / 6 Threads, 2.9 - 4.1GHz
I had not found any clues that I recognized in kernel logs.
I was particularly puzzled because I had tried a live install of Intel's
Anyhow, following your message I thought I would try with a newly created
installation usb drive, with F32, which I could reinstall without overwriting
all of the hard drive.
After that the resolution went up to what it should have been!
However I'm having some problems with text in small fonts 'crumbling' on the
screen, which I expect will disappear when I have completed the resurrection.
I have no idea why the first installation not only set up a low resolution
display but also somehow prevented the resolution being increased by updates,
upgrades and other attempts - e.g. looking for files with the wrong
specification.
Anyhow, thanks for challenging my assumption, which let to successful restart
after several days of wasted time!
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I had previously found that when I installed Intel's Clear Linux via usb drive:
https://clearlinux.org/
the resolution was as expected. I assumed that intel had used new special
drivers to achieve that, but I now see that that guess was unjustified.
I disliked the user interface provided by Clear (probably designed to make
Windows or Mac users feel at home) which is why I wasn't prepared to solve my
problem by using Clear.
Getting ctwm working again, including restoring saner font sizes, was one of the
first things I did after reinstalling linux.
Anyhow the problem is now solved, thanks to your provocation, though I still
have some work to do restoring the remaining packages I had previously, and
bringing the second hard drive back to life: I left it untouched during the
latest installation of F32, but will now add previously saved relevant entries
to /etc/fstab.
Thanks!
Aaron
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs
