On Mon, May 29 2017, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> Dell latitude E7450 with intel 915 graphics, gnome 3, systemd. >> >> lspci: >> VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09) >> >> I just bought a new dell 34" curved monitor (U3417). >> It's max res is 3440X2560, but at that res it complains that no signal >> is coming. It works fine at other res (including 2560x1440). >> >> The dell manual says to get new drivers and I am indeed running an old >> kernel, 3.18.16-gentoo. The highest stable is 4.9.16 and I am planning >> to build and employ it this summer. >> >> Has high res support been added to the intel graphics driver? >> >> thanks, >> allan >> > > You don't need the Intel graphics driver, they are actually deprecated [1]. > > Just set your VIDEO_CARDS to: > > VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" > > and do emerge -uDNvp @world; when you do emerge --depclean, > xf86-video-intel will be uninstalled. > > The built-in modesetting driver is the one recommended; I'm pretty sure it > will support the maximum res of your new monitor. > > Regards.
Canek, Thank you very much! allan
