Post by Andrei POPESCUPost by D. R. EvansI just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I am
unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x1200. All my other
systems display at that resolution when attached to the same monitor.
I won't bore you with all the things I've tried without success. (At least, I
won't bore you yet.)
But please do, unless you want us to run the same blind alleys.
Roughly:
I updated the ASPEED driver to make sure that it was the current version.
Just in case it would help, I enabled the wheezy deb-multimedia repository and
did a dist-upgrade (it made no difference).
I used cvt to get a modeline for 1920x1200, and tried to run xrandr with that
mode (sorry about layout below):
xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203
1209 1245 -hsync +vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
and then :
xrandr --output default --mode 1920x1200_60.00
xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1200_60.00
Perhaps I wasn't using the xrandr command correctly, but that usage seemed to
be what the documentation I found suggested.
Then I tried building an Xorg.conf file, with the result in
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18494055/config.txt
Nothing I could google was any help in explaining why the Xorg -configure
command might have failed.
If I issue just the xrandr command by itself, I get:
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x1024 75.0* 60.0
1024x768 75.0 70.0 60.0
800x600 75.0 72.0 60.0 56.0
640x480 75.0 73.0 67.0 60.0
Post by Andrei POPESCUPost by D. R. EvansI see that "ast" is listed as an available video driver; so I don't understand
why the Xorg.0.log file says it's unable to be loaded.
As far as I can tell Xorg expects a file
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ast_drv.so. Does it exit?
Yes; the output from ls -al:
total 5820
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 18 13:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 17 11:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84808 May 1 2012 apm_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20328 May 1 2012 ark_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 925 Nov 17 13:34 ast_drv.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 618632 Nov 17 13:34 ast_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 Mar 9 2013 ati_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143744 May 1 2012 chips_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36848 Jul 16 2012 cirrus_alpine.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15912 Jul 16 2012 cirrus_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28912 Jul 16 2012 cirrus_laguna.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22248 May 1 2012 fbdev_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58440 May 1 2012 i128_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 986056 Sep 16 2012 intel_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194000 May 1 2012 mach64_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 171944 Jan 12 2013 mga_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38720 Jun 13 2012 modesetting_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73072 May 12 2012 neomagic_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205104 Feb 7 2013 nouveau_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 360176 May 15 2013 openchrome_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111520 May 8 2012 r128_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1118952 Mar 9 2013 radeon_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34320 May 1 2012 rendition_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66592 Mar 20 2013 s3_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78624 May 6 2012 s3virge_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147304 May 8 2012 savage_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120200 May 1 2012 siliconmotion_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 578088 May 1 2012 sis_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74280 May 1 2012 sisusb_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71096 May 6 2012 tdfx_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156384 May 1 2012 trident_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53576 May 1 2012 tseng_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26408 May 1 2012 vesa_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53904 May 1 2012 vmware_drv.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28536 May 1 2012 voodoo_drv.so
Post by Andrei POPESCUPost by D. R. EvansThe driver identifies itself at boot time as ASPEED 08.00.0; I have checked
with the motherboard manufacturer's site, and this is the current version. The
documentation explicitly says that wheezy 7.7 is supported.
Please be so kind to provide us with more information about your video
adapter and this 'ast' driver. The "PCI:" line in your Xorg.0.log is not
very informative :-/
The only thing I know about the ast driver is that, whatever it is, the
Xorg.0.log file says that it can't be loaded. I know nothing else about it at
all. If you can suggest other places for me to look, or other files I could
upload to dropbox to help learn something more about the ast driver, I would
be delighted to act on your suggestions.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "video adapter". I am just trying to use
the video provided by the motherboard; there is no separate adapter. The
ASPEED 08.00.00 driver is the the one supplied by the manufacturer (ASUS).
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