Hi Ben, Thanks for trying to help. You will note from my original report as well as the follow-up on 28 April that I had installed the 'firmware-amd-graphics' package and still get the error message.
# apt search firmware-amd-graphics > firmware-amd-graphics/testing, now 201901 14-1 all [installed] # whereis firmware-amd-graphics > firmware-amd-graphics: Despite above response I am able to install and remove the package easily. But it makes no visible difference to the graphics or to dmesg error message. Changing to a less ancient monitor has helped center the screen but there still remains the problem of font size: a) tty1-6 use large fonts b) MATE Terminal font size is normal c) XTerm & UXTerm has small windows and small font d) emacs and pluma have normal fonts I can live with all these but it would be nice to get to the root of the problem. I expect you might like to fix it before stable release. Regards, Tom Thekathyil On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 12:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 10:51 +1000, Tom Thekathyil wrote: > > Hi Geert, > > > > Thank you so much for your prompt reply. > > > > Your suggestion it could be a monitor problem provided the clue it > > could be the 11-year old model used (Acer X223w) that was causing the > > problem. Swapped for a more current unit (Dell U2414H) and screen is > > nicely centered now. > > > > That still leaves the problem why dmesg shows > > '[ 1.349124] [drm:amdgpu_pci_probe [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu > > requires firmware installed]' > > Which firmware? > [...] > > The firmware-amd-graphics package. > > Ben. > -- PO Box 76, St. Helens, TAS 7216, Australia - Ph: 61 3 6373 6191 GnuPG Public Key 0xD8F45B65
