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 Monday, December 19, 2022 10:29 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> replied: > To use Bullseye, at the least you need either a backport kernel containing > Alder Lake support, or Bookworm (Testing) or Sid (Unstable). I did a clean install of Bookworm and am happy to report that solved the problem. Thank you. ________________________________________ From: Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) <kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> Sent: Tuesday, December 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 Monday, December 19, 2022 9:49 PM, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Newer Intel graphics require closed source binary blobs. Try installing > firmware-linux-nonfree. I did that and am still stuck. Thanks for the suggestion. On Monday, December 19, 2022 10:29 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> replied: > 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 > your selected distro's original release date. I've heard that rule often but trusted a local friend who's built many Linux machines to build mine. I've used *ix for 40 years but never assembled the hardware. And here I am. > To use Bullseye, at the least you need either a backport kernel containing > Alder Lake support, or Bookworm (Testing) or Sid (Unstable). I'll try Testing and, if that fails, maybe an add-on graphics card. Thanks. On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 2:47 AM, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote: > Perhaps, it would be worthwhile, to download and try a Linux Mint live iso, Thank you. I hope to stick with Debian but will keep this in mind. 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. ________________________________________ From: Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:36 AM To: 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 with fetching modes supported by the monitor. Examples of commands to debug such problem: get-edid | parse-edid edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid
