Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 6/14/24 07:39, Chime Hart wrote: Well David-and-All, even though I switched back to Debian, I am running 6.9.4 from Zabbly. So I rebooted, have not noticed any changes. Out of the box I am getting 67by240, but I run an Lat15 to double an amount of lines to 135. I am also totally blind, so ju

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread David C. Rankin
On 6/14/24 03:54, Dave Howorth wrote: [snip] [ 1035.285] (II) intel(0): switch to mode1920x1080@60.0 on VGA1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none [ 1035.296] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 285 After update to 6.9.4 that becomes: [snip]

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If dkms has anything to do with monitors, last kernel that supported dkms was 6.80 so dkms likely isn't working now. Good excuse to remove those packages and find other ways to accommodate hardware. I found this out after installing kernel 6.94 a couple days ago. -- Jude "There are four boxe

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread Genes Lists
I too have no issues with 6.9.4 (including laptops, monitors and an older TV) so its quite possible the issue David has is hardware specific. 1) Perhaps its useful to compare what edid your monitors provide using 6.9.3 and 6.9.4 kernels. To do so, one way is to build the edid-decode-git package

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread Chime Hart
Well David-and-All, even though I switched back to Debian, I am running 6.9.4 from Zabbly. So I rebooted, have not noticed any changes. Out of the box I am getting 67by240, but I run an Lat15 to double an amount of lines to 135. I am also totally blind, so just going by a text console. Chime

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, There is no question, there is something that changed in the 6.9.4 kernel update that changed monitor/resolution detection and which is selected on boot. Let me know what logs and I'll get them to you. Happy to e-mail logs off list as well if that will help. Maybe you can bisect with http

Re: linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?

2024-06-14 Thread Dave Howorth
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:12:36 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 6/13/24 05:00, Christian Heusel wrote: > > Then please also share the full logs ;) > >Looking at the Xorg.0.log for both 6.9.3 and 6.9.4 kernels, it is > clear the 6.9.3 log selects the correct 1920x1080 resolution while > th