On 5/23/20 2:36 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I have been using Debian for the last 20+ years. I don't like systemd
and that has kept me on Stretch, where I can still use SysV as init.
I have tried several times to upgrade to Buster without SysV, but have
had no luck. So here I am at Devuan.
I installed Ascii on a separate set of partitions, so I have the
ability to keep using my Debian Stretch install until I get Ascii
running the way I want it to. I had some trouble with the install,
but I got past that. I do, however, have some issues that I could use
some help with.
My screen resolution is very low.
Under Stretch, when I run xrandr, I get about a dozen resolutions, up
to 1920x1080. Since I have a 23" monitor, I use the highest
resolution possible. Unfortunately, under Ascii, I get a max
resolution of 1280x1024, which doesn't even fit the screen proportions.
The output from lspci is:
lspci -v | grep VGA
Flags: bus master, VGA palette snoop, 66MHz, medium devsel,
latency 64, NUMA node 0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
According to the MATE Control Center, my monitor is "Unknown", under
Debian Stretch it correctly identifies my Samsung monitor.
If I set my video mode to 0x317 in LILO (as my Debian config had) that
is even worse. Then I get the framebuffer while I am in the console,
which looks a lot better, but my X screen resolution is also limited
to 1024x768. (Under Debian, my X screen resolution was not tied to
the framebuffer resolution.) The highest resolution that I can set
the framebuffer to seems to be 1400x1050. This is better, but still
not what my video card/monitor combination is capable of.
Have others been having these issues? Any ideas on how to get my full
screen resolution in X will be greatly appreciated. I am looking
forward to working in an OS that is guaranteed not to slip systemd in
on me.
Marc Shapiro
Installed firmware-linux. Problem solved.
Marc
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