[SOLVED] KDE "Displays" settings max resolution not higher than 800x600

Monti · 2021-09-03 17:00:55

Hi,

I have just installed Beowulf, but when KDE Plasma starts up screen resolution is 800x600 and not the native 1366x768. I can't remember this being a problem when installing ASCII.

As mentioned in the subject line KDE Displays Settings are not showing options above 800x600.

Please advice.

Adapter is ATI Radeon

$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v]

Monti

larsH · 2021-09-03 18:15:55

Hi

Try to install firmware-linux and firmware-linux-nonfree to get the firmware. It might not solve the problem, but improve performance when you get it to work.

And maybe try with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-xorg.conf and adapt it to your card.

-------------------------------------------

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "External DVI"
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00" 108.88 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1060 -HSync +Vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]"
Driver "ati"
Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "External DVI"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Primary Screen"
Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. M22 [Radeon Mobility M300]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Primary Screen"
EndSection
---------------------------------------------------------

Have a nice day
Lars H

Monti · 2021-09-03 20:43:58

larsH wrote:

Hi
Try to install firmware-linux and firmware-linux-nonfree to get the firmware. It might not solve the problem, but improve performance when you get it to work.
And maybe try with the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-xorg.conf and adapt it to your card.
...

Thanks man!

Interesting that you mention performance enhancement. I've been questioning the not to good performance. Is there a way to install just the proprietary Radeon firmware? I might been under the wrong impression, but I've been thinking that firmware-linux-nonfree is bunch of other stuff too. Please advice.

Edit:
By the way, you actually mean '/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d', right?

Thanks,
Monti

Last edited by Monti (2021-09-03 20:57:16)

larsH · 2021-09-03 21:03:04

Hi agian

No I mean /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/something.conf

/etc is where system configfiles lives :-)

Last edited by larsH (2021-09-03 21:03:54)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2021-09-03 21:28:23

The firmware package for AMD graphics cards is called firmware-amd-graphics.

Check dmesg to see if it's loaded and check the X.Org log for errors and to see which DDX drivers you're using. lspci -k will show the loaded kernel drivers.

Monti · 2021-09-04 21:18:24

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

The firmware package for AMD graphics cards is called firmware-amd-graphics.
Check dmesg to see if it's loaded and check the X.Org log for errors and to see which DDX drivers you're using. lspci -k will show the loaded kernel drivers.

Thank you very much for your support Head_on_a Stick.

dmesg showed it quite clearly:

[    8.554704] [drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware installed

My problem now is that I am not successful in entering the non-free repository in sources.list

I have entered it as following:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf contrib non-free

That said, I wish that a full listing of the repositories available would be listed in the release info page for every Devuan release.

From your post in another thread that I started I have noted that the missing package is "firmware-amd-graphics".

Thanks,
Monti

GlennW · 2021-09-04 21:37:01

Hi, Maybe I missed it, but I usually have "main" in there too...

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ beowulf non-free contrib main

All the best Monti.

golinux · 2021-09-04 21:39:34

You can check available packages using https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html

Monti · 2021-09-04 21:44:53

Thank you GlennW!

When I do it like this I don't get any errors:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf non-free contrib 
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf non-free contrib

Though, when executing:

$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics

I get this result:

$ sudo apt-get install firmware-amd-graphics
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-amd-graphics
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,427 kB of archives.
After this operation, 31.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf/non-free amd64 firmware-amd-graphics all 20190114-2 [3,427 kB]
Fetched 3,427 kB in 0s (8,586 kB/s)         
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-amd-graphics.
(Reading database ... 184569 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-amd-graphics_20190114-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-amd-graphics (20190114-2) ...
Setting up firmware-amd-graphics (20190114-2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8107e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-3.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8106e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8411-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8402-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169

Again thank you for your follow-ups guys. Really appreciate it.

Monti

Last edited by Monti (2021-09-04 21:45:42)

GlennW · 2021-09-04 22:14:12

r8169 is a realtek network chip of some type. If your network is ok you can disregard the error message.

That file is probably in one of the other firware packages. Or the system was too slow to load it in time for the message. IMHO

edit.
I have it (the module and header, not the firmware) here on my system

glenn@asus-r552jv:~$ locate r8169
/lib/modules/5.10.0-7-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
/lib/modules/5.10.0-8-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.ko
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.0-8-amd64/include/config/r8169.h
glenn@asus-r552jv:~$

Last edited by GlennW (2021-09-04 22:16:42)

GlennW · 2021-09-04 22:27:14

The firmware file is "firmware-realtek"

Info to read here, ref. https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-realtek

The package ...
Source: firmware-nonfree

I hope this helps.

Monti · 2021-09-04 22:45:54

Thanks a lot all of you guys for all your input!

Issue solved after the firmware-amd-graphics installation. 1366x768 initialized automatically and shows up in KDE "Displays" settings.

Really appreciate it!

Monti

Edit:
And running smooth

Last edited by Monti (2021-09-04 23:01:00)

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