[SOLVED] debian: change resolution

icegood · 11-19-2016, 08:49 AM

Hi there. I'm trying to change my screen resolution (default one is 1024x768 while maximal supported one is 1366x768).
My videocard is:

Quote:

ice@ice-debian:/boot$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]

I've tried to install proprietary drivers but after that xserver doesn't even start. So i rolled back to xserver-xorg-video-ati.

My system is

Quote:

oot@ice-debian:/boot# uname -a
Linux ice-debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've also tried to install resolution manually as mentioned
there but xrandr fails with error

Quote:

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

Later i found that xorg and xrandr are not compatible anymore (there)
and for this moment i don't know what to do anymore.
My Xorg.0.log is in attach

Emerson · 11-19-2016, 09:03 AM

Code:

[     4.502] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported.
[     4.502] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[     4.502] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[     4.502] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

Required kernel driver is not loaded. As a result VESA fallback driver is used, this is why you get the low resolution picture, xrandr needs proper driver loaded and it will work. Don't you believe that old post, back then nVidia proprietary driver didn't support xrandr, it does now.

icegood · 11-19-2016, 01:08 PM

OK, i was able finally to fix it. The problem was that proprietary driver 'fglrx' added 'radeon' driver to blacklist so even after removing of 'fglrx' 'radeon' still was blocked. So, i removed appropriate file from /etc/modprobe.d/ and regenerated initrd. And everything works now.