Re: Bugs in display scaling and screen resolution setting

2024-09-23 Thread George at Clug
On Monday, 23-09-2024 at 19:48 newbie...@gmx.de wrote: > > hello friends,  >   > I tried but found it too confusing to find where to report bugs for debian > :-(  .  What GUI are you using? (e.g. Gnome, KDE, Xfec, etc ?) Wayland or X11 ? What is the model number of monitor are you using?

Bugs in display scaling and screen resolution setting

2024-09-23 Thread newbie-02
hello friends,    I tried but found it too confusing to find where to report bugs for debian :-(   .    I see an issues in ver. 12.6.0 started from the live image:    Scaling the desktop by Settings - Display - General - Scale works  counter-intuitive, setting it to 2x reduces everything on scree

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > >>> So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal tha

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails,

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > >> echo "$DISPLAY" > > > > So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's > > running inside of

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 Have

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Albert S.
My thanks to David Wright and Max Nikulin. That was a good wake-up call. Most of my VMs are safe, but it was interesting to learn what was really going on. ForwardX11 was enabled for the ssh session. Initially I imagined vncviewer (to the KVM host though ssh) was the one causing the problem,

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian syst

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/02/2023 08:57, Albert S. wrote: If you think I issued the xrandr command on the wrong machine, that was not the case: history makes it clear. Behavior depends on the DISPLAY environment value at the moment when xrandr was executed. Likely it was pointed not to vnc Xserver, but to the

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 20:57:38 (-0500), Albert S. wrote: > Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both > monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am > wondering how to explain that. > > Below you will find the detailed description. [ … ] > But my re

Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Albert S.
tely unexpected. I am asking myself how can a command issued on a VM which is running on a different machine affect the screen resolution of the workstation used to access that VM. Just to be clear, I was accessing that VM both through ssh and through vncviewer (still back and gray screen image)

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-23 Thread gene heskett
On 12/21/22 03:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 05:26:06PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: [...] On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:36 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: get-edid | parse-edid edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid Thanks. get-edid doesn't find any EDIDs

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-23 Thread gene heskett
: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2 External Email: Use Caution On 20/12/2022 09:49, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Newer Intel graphics require closed source binary blobs. Try installing firmware-linux-nonfree. In the previous thread somebody spotted an issue

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/12/2022 00:26, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:36 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: get-edid | parse-edid edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid Thanks. get-edid doesn't find any EDIDs, and there are no edid files under /sys/devices. Have you checked "jou

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-21 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
_ From: to...@tuxteam.de Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 3:37 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2 External Email: Use Caution

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-21 Thread tomas
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 05:26:06PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: [...] > On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:36 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: > > get-edid | parse-edid > > edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid > Thanks. get-edid doesn't find any EDIDs, and there are no edid files under

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
20, 2022 12:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2 On Monday, December 19, 2022 9:12 PM, I wrote: >> Today I have my new desktop and did a clean install of Bullseye. I call fvwm >> with startx, and once again my screen is 1024x768. On Mon

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Thanks. get-edid doesn't find any EDIDs, and there are no edid files under /sys/devices. From: Max Nikulin Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2 External Email: Us

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/12/2022 09:49, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Newer Intel graphics require closed source binary blobs. Try installing firmware-linux-nonfree. In the previous thread somebody spotted an issue with fetching modes supported by the monitor. Examples of commands to debug such problem: get-edi

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-20 02:12 (UTC): > Today I have my new desktop and did a clean install of Bullseye. Cardinal rule of PC shopping for use with Linux, unless you are a Linux developer: Make sure the major PC components are several months or more older than

Re: loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:28 PM Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) < kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > On Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I started a thread (same title as > this > minus "part 2"), with: > > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (19

loss of screen resolution, part 2

2022-12-19 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I started a thread (same title as this minus "part 2"), with: > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became > unavailable. Despite many helpful suggestions, the problem wasn't resolved. Since I was about to

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-07 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >> unavailable. ... On Sunday, December 4, 2022 1:26 AM, Felix Miata replied: > Do you have another VGA cable you could try? Do you have any other PCs with > VGA out

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-04 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-04 18:03 (UTC): > I do have /usr/lib/xserver-xorg-video-intel. I don't have > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but do have /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the > following: > 10-amdgpu.conf 10-quirks.conf 10-radeon.conf 40-libinput.conf > 70-wacom.conf >

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-04 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >> unavailable. ... On December 4, 2022 1:26 AM, Felix Miata replied: > Your old Xorg.0.logs differ significantly from your current ones ... > This suggests to me your

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 02:41 (UTC): ... Your old Xorg.0.logs differ significantly from your current ones, and my own on a similar Intel GPU. In what follows, the current ones and the old ones omit everything between the first and last lines: * [ 2059.607] (II) modes

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 02:41 (UTC): See if adding the following file helps: --- # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/25-intelExtra.conf Section "Device" Identifier "IntelKludges" Option "ReprobeOutputs" "on" # default off EndSection --- "(WW) VGA ar

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >> unavailable. ... On December 3, 2022 1:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > This and http://paste.debian.net/1262700/ are the same log created Sat Jul 3 > 16:37:19 2021 u

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-03 14:15 (UTC): > For Xorg.0.log, > http://paste.debian.net/1262735/ This and http://paste.debian.net/1262700/ are the same log created Sat Jul 3 16:37:19 2021 using kernel 4.19.0-17-amd64. If these are from /var/log/ then look in ~/.local/share/xorg

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-03 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >>> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >>> unavailable. ... On December 2, 2022 10:12 AM, Felix Miata wrote: >> ... run >> inxi -U >> to upgrade, and post here output from within

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 02:20 (UTC): >> Next, give us the whole log to see: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | pastebinit > http://paste.debian.net/1262700/ > That's a lot to look at. Thank you. I don't see anything to suggest that there's anything wrong. Did these re

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >> unavailable. ... On December 2, 2022 10:12 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > ... run > inxi -U > to upgrade, and post here output from within an X terminal:

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) composed on 2022-12-02 13:11 (UTC): > I'll add that I did do a weekly apt upgrade shortly before this happened, Now let's see how all those things Dan asked for work together: Install/Upgrade inxi. Buster's inxi is a broken antique. Best to install directly from upstre

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On December 1, 2022 9:41 PM, I wrote: >> Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became >> unavailable. ... On December 2, 2022 7:43 AM, Dan Ritter replied: > I'm going to guess that this is a change in one or both of: > > - GPU firmware > -

Re: loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became > unavailable. I booted to the console and called startx, which brings up > fvwm. But my default base window went way off-screen, and the type was huge. > xrandr said I was at

loss of screen resolution

2022-12-02 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became unavailable. I booted to the console and called startx, which brings up fvwm. But my default base window went way off-screen, and the type was huge. xrandr said I was at 1024x768 and did not list the 1920x1200 option at all

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

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Re: Debian Live Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] screen resolution

2022-01-09 Thread Richmond
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 06:52:32PM +, Richmond wrote: >> I am currently running Debian 10. >> >> sudo lspci|grep VGA >> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, >> Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] >> >> sudo xrandr >> >> Screen 0: minimu

Re: Debian Live Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] screen resolution

2022-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 06:52:32PM +, Richmond wrote: > I am currently running Debian 10. > > sudo lspci|grep VGA > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, > Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] > > sudo xrandr > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum

Debian Live Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] screen resolution

2022-01-08 Thread Richmond
I am currently running Debian 10. sudo lspci|grep VGA 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] sudo xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA-0 connected primary 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Étienne Mollier
can read. And the > windows size is also larger than the monitor area, so I can't > see the buttons. I can complete the installation either way, > but I want to know why this is happening and how to solve > this. [...] > Where I can change the screen resolution during (or before) &g

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/03/2019 à 18:30, Felix Miata a écrit : Including either nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 for installation is pointless, since the installer does not use KMS. Another key is the i7-6700HQ provides HD 530 Intel video. Intel + NVidia usually equates to "Optimus" which makes nouveau.modes

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Felix Miata
> want to know why this is happening and how to solve this. > After OS install, I try to follow Debian instructions to install Nvidia > drivers. But I'm following every tutorial and ending up with a broken > installation. > So, my questions: > Where I can change the screen re

Re: Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Curt
On 2019-03-01, Fabiano Ferronato wrote: > > Hi all! > > I don't know if this is the wright place to ask, but I'm searching a lot > trying to find a way to this problem. > I'm installing Debian in my Asus ROG GL552VW laptop (Intel and Nvidia video > cards) and the resolution (probably 3840x2160)is

Screen resolution during Stretch installation

2019-03-01 Thread Fabiano Ferronato
try to follow Debian instructions to install Nvidia drivers. But I'm following every tutorial and ending up with a broken installation. So, my questions: Where I can change the screen resolution during (or before) install? After install, resolution is still wrong. How can I set OS resolution during

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-29 Thread Lance Simmons
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 4:34 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > > Is it BIOS (in which case you have grub-pc > installed) or (U)EFI (in which case you have grub-efi-ia32 or > grub-efi-amd64 installed)? > I have UEFI (which I just learned), but grub-pc is installed. I assume that's because the UEFI has leg

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:49:53AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: I want to change grub screen resolution. Four facts: (1) "vbeinfo" and "videoinfo" return no result in grub.  The screen blanks and eventually I restart the computer. This /probably/ means that grub

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-29 Thread Felix Miata
Lance Simmons composed on 2018-06-29 00:49 (UTC-0500): > (1) "vbeinfo" and "videoinfo" return no result in grub. The screen blanks > and eventually I restart the computer. Neither work at my current Grub2-efi prompt on Kaby Lake. From videoinfo, I do get a two line output: List of suppo

Re: After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-29 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 00:49:53 -0500 Lance Simmons wrote: (...) > > (4) So far, changing GRUB_GFXMODE (in /etc/default/grub) to several of > the resolutions I know my monitor supports (and then running "sudo > update-grub") has no effect. > > Any suggestions? I had a similar problem some ti

After some effort, can't change grub screen resolution

2018-06-28 Thread Lance Simmons
I want to change grub screen resolution. Four facts: (1) "vbeinfo" and "videoinfo" return no result in grub. The screen blanks and eventually I restart the computer. (2) "hwinfo --framebuffer" returns no result. I would append the logfile, but it's 7500 lin

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
ou ran gNewSense which is a version of Debian recommended > by the Free Software Foundation then you would have to use xorg.conf to set > the screen resolution. > > Think gNewSense = orthodox ; Debian = reformed; Ubuntu = > secular/heterodox.. > > MF ​​ > > >

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Cathy Gramze
, and Debian doesn't. cathy On 01/12/2017 06:36 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 09 January 2017 10:34:23 manashpal wrote: After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpec

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 January 2017 10:34:23 manashpal wrote: > After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 > screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to > have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other >

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-11 Thread Cathy Gramze
em, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other hand ubuntu, fedora, kali and many more linux distros has never disappoint me such a way. how can I f

Re: How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-09 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:34:23 +0100 schreef manashpal : After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render >1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other h

How to fix screen resolution ( has been set to 1024 * 768 )

2017-01-09 Thread manashpal
After installing Debian latest Jessie in my system, I am getting a 1024*768 screen resolution, but my monitor can render 1366*768. it is unlikely to have got such a unexpected screen resolution like 1024*768. on the other hand ubuntu, fedora, kali and many more linux distros has never

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie (Solved)

2015-04-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/30/2015 05:47 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:22:43PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 04/29/2015 09:47 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 10

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:22:43PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/29/2015 09:47 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > >Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: > >>I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. > >>With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct asp

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Gary Roach: > [27.621] (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable > [27.638] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering > [29.297] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast > [29.297] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 I don't see

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 09:47 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Frank Miles
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:30:03 +0200, Gary Roach wrote: > I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. > With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect > ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 > mode. All of my cir

Re: Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.04.2015 um 18:28 schrieb Gary Roach: > I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. > With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect > ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 > mode. All of my circles are now el

Screen resolution in Jessie

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded to Jessie with no problems. I use a 24" 16x9 monitor. With wheezy, there was a 1920 x 1080? mode that gave the correct aspect ratio for the 16x9 screens. Jessie seems to only have the 4x3 1600x1200 mode. All of my circles are now elipses. Is there a solution to this problem. Is

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-26 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks. On 09/26/2014 01:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: Maybe X isn't getting the correct resolution from the monitor. Check the xorg log file and see if that helps. The Xorg log file ( /var/log/Xorg.0.log ) shows no relevant errors and only a few items that seem to relate to the resolution.

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 25 Sep 2014 at 20:48:59 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are st

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:48:59PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > >First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in > >LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's > >an X thing, plain and simple. > > There are

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/25/2014 08:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: First, how confident are you that this is *only* in Xfce, and not in LXDE and Openbox and who knows what other window managers? Perhaps it's an X thing, plain and simple. There are still some configuration options I have missed that are needed to try L

Re: XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:08:54 +0300 Lars Noodén wrote: > In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050 > instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings -> > Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not > higher or lower. > > xrandr seems to

XFCE4 screen resolution stuck too low

2014-09-25 Thread Lars Noodén
In XFCE4, on Jessie, I am getting a display resolution of 1400x1050 instead of 1680x1050. If I go to the XFCE Menu -> Settings -> Display, it gives me only a single choice, that of 1400x1050, not higher or lower. xrandr seems to be able to see the maximum resolution: $ xrandr xrandr: Failed t

Screen resolution [was: Re: Building computer]

2013-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Oct 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] > > No apology needed. You did in fact peg my age correctly; I will be 61 next > > month. And I too have known people who run less than the native resolution > > to make the fonts bigger. When I get to that point, though, I will simply > > increase >

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/04/12 16:17, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > there is no man page for grub. !? grub-bin2h grub-editenv grub-emu grub-install grub-mkconfig grub-mkdevicemap grub-mkfont grub-mkimage grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 grub-mkrelpath grub-mkrescue grub-probe grub-reboot grub-script-check grub-set-default grub-set

RE: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> AHA, an undocumented feature. At least, it is not documented in the >> /etc/default/grub file itself. > You need to do: > >info grub > > Bet you didn't know about that. :) Well I knew about info but when I want to know about syntax I use mainly man, but there is no man page for

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-05 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 11:48:57 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > AHA, an undocumented feature. At least, it is not documented in the > /etc/default/grub file itself. You need to do: info grub Bet you didn't know about that. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

RE: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
h time by >> adding the line set gfxpayload=keep at the proper place. > You should not need to change the 00_header script. > > Adding a line into /etc/default/grub, after the GRUB_GFXMODE entry with > > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep > > should make grub keep the screen reso

RE: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> I do not understand the defaults build into Grub2. For instance the >> default resolution, it is at 640x480. Which machine running Linux >> cannot at least use 800x600? Or is Grub2 made with hendhelds as a >> target environment as well? > Yes - especially those squint-o-vision "widescre

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 04/04/12 11:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > The second thing I don not understand it why Grub2 will not keep the > screen resolution after the menu has gone. Why does it by default > ALWAYS go back to 640x480 even when the menu is shown at a higher > resolution? Grub is essentially

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Dom
On 04/04/12 11:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course most of the time I use ssh (or PuTTY) to go

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 20:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine > to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution > so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course > most of the time I

grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course most of the time I use ssh (or PuTTY) to go to a server and I can choose the screen

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-07 Thread debian
On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:37 + Brian wrote: > On Sat 07 Jan 2012 at 11:49:08 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Did you try without the Modeline? As far as I know X should be able > > to compute it based on HorizSync, VertRefresh and Modes. > > X may indeed do this but, after commenting out

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-07 Thread Brian
On Sat 07 Jan 2012 at 11:49:08 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Did you try without the Modeline? As far as I know X should be able to > compute it based on HorizSync, VertRefresh and Modes. X may indeed do this but, after commenting out Modeline, the best it could offer was 1024x768. > Also, it

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:37:01 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 06/01/12 18:21, Camaleón wrote: >> Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) >> Steps are detailed at "Adding undetected resolutions" section. >> Greetings, > > OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'an

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 06 ian 12, 23:28:07, Brian wrote: > > I'll not bore you with why it happens but the EDID data are not passed to > X on a couple of my machines, My xorg.conf is usually non-existent but > in this case I have: > >Section "Monitor" >Identifier "1905FP" >Modeline "1280x1024"

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Jan 2012 at 18:37:01 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'announce' that it > supports that mode when probed? I think X can only work with what it is given. If the monitor fails for some reason to impart information X's idea of what is possible

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Andrew Wood: > On 06/01/12 18:21, Camaleón wrote: >> Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) >> Steps are detailed at "Adding undetected resolutions" section. >> Greetings, > > OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'announce' that it > supports that mode when p

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
On 06/01/12 18:21, Camaleón wrote: Yup, you have to add the unexistant mode before you can use it :-) Steps are detailed at "Adding undetected resolutions" section. Greetings, OK, in an ideal world though shouldnt the board 'announce' that it supports that mode when probed? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:42:37 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > On 06/01/12 16:59, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:59:45 +, Andrew Wood wrote: >> >>> Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can >>> only get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed i

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks guys, xrandr gives: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 DVI1 disconnected

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:59:45 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Ive got an LCD screen whose native resolution is 1440x900 yet i can only > get Wheezy to display 1024x768. No higher resolution is listed in System > Settings. How do I enable a higher resolution please? What's the output of "xrandr"? You

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Johann Klammer
Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrew Wood
You can tell by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If after looking at the log file, the problem isn't readily apparent, post the contents here, and someone should be able to figure out what's wrong. -- Kevin The pertinent contents of the log seem to be as follows. Im not sure how it works.

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 06 ian 12, 02:31:17, Andrew Wood wrote: > Hi Kevin > > > yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i > check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that > the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure > what it means, could it be a

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 01/05/2012 06:31 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with t

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Kevin yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD? 353.94242

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin Ross
On 01/05/2012 04:30 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controll

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) On 06/01/12 00:23, Bob Proul

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) On 06/01/12 00:23, Bob Proul

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) On 06/01/12 00:23, Bob Proul

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Bob lspci gives: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) On 06/01/12 00:23, Bob Proul

Re: Screen resolution

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Wood
Sorry. should also have added the graphics chipset is an intel gma 950 integrated onto an atom itx motherboard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f063

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