[gentoo-user] new hi-res display won't work at top res

2017-05-19 Thread allan gottlieb
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 oth

Re: [gentoo-user] new hi-res display won't work at top res

2017-05-19 Thread R0b0t1
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM, allan gottlieb 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

Re: [gentoo-user] new hi-res display won't work at top res

2017-05-29 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
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

Re: [gentoo-user] new hi-res display won't work at top res

2017-05-29 Thread allan gottlieb
On Mon, May 29 2017, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:58 AM, allan gottlieb 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" c