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Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768

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On 11/30/2015 01:21 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have been holding off on upgrading to Jessie, but I decided that it 
> was time to at least try it out.
>
> I made a copy of my current system in unused space on my disk and 
> updated lilo.  After verifying that I could boot into both setups, I 
> upgraded the copy to Jessie after installing sysvinit-core to avoid 
> systemd.  It boots and lets me log in on multiple consoles as 
> different users.  Each user can run startx and gets their own session 
> on separate vts specific to the user.  This was my big question, and 
> it seems to work fine.  (We'll have to see about Jessie+1, it seems.)
>
> My problem now is screen resolution.  All I get is 1024x768. Under 
> Wheezy I get 15 different resolutions from 720x400 and 640x480 up to 
> 1920x1080.  Jessie says that the monitor is "Unknown" and only allows 
> me to use 1024x768.  How do I get X to recognize my monitor under Jessie?
>
> Marc

I decided, since this was just a test, to install systemd-sysv (which 
should remove sysvinit-core) so that I could see if booting with systemd 
would make a difference.   But...

I can't install systemd-sysv.  I get the following:

# aptitude install systemd-sysv
No candidate version found for systemd-sysv
No candidate version found for systemd-sysv
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

and:

# aptitude show systemd-sysv
No current or candidate version found for systemd-sysv
Package: systemd-sysv
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 215-17+deb8u2
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers 
<pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 78.8 k
Depends: systemd (= 215-17+deb8u2)
PreDepends: systemd
Conflicts: sysvinit-core, sysvinit-core, upstart, upstart, systemd-sysv
Replaces: sysvinit (< 2.88dsf-44~), sysvinit (< 2.88dsf-44~), 
sysvinit-core, sysvinit-core, upstart, upstart
Description: system and service manager - SysV links
  systemd is a replacement for sysvinit.  It is dependency-based and 
able to read the LSB init script headers in addition to
  parsing rcN.d links as hints.

  It also provides process supervision using cgroups and the ability to 
not only depend on other init script being started,
  but also availability of a given mount point or dbus service.

  This package provides the manual pages and links needed for systemd to 
replace sysvinit. Installing systemd-sysv will
  overwrite /sbin/init with a link to systemd.
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd

which suggests that it exists, but nothing is installable.  Now, I would 
be happier to get this working without systemd, but shouldn't systemd be 
installable?

Marc

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Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 22:30 +0100
  Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 23:30 +0100
    Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> - 2015-11-30 23:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 00:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 01:00 +0100
  Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> - 2015-12-01 01:20 +0100

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