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

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On 11/30/2015 02:36 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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:
> [...]
>> 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?
> Did you maybe pin systemd-sysv to make sure it didn't get installed?
> Check /etc/apt/preferences & /etc/apt/preferences.d or the output of
> "apt-cache policy systemd-sysv".
>
> If you try systemd, you might want to make sure that "sysvinit" is
> installed. This should provide an entry in grub's boot menu to start
> with sysvinit in case anything goes wrong; with other bootloaders one
> can pass init=/lib/sysvinit/init to do so.
>
> Though it would surprise me a bit if this affects X in Jessie.
>
> Ansgar
>
Yes.  That was the reason that I could not install systemd-sysv.  I had 
forgotten having done that.  I eliminated the pin and installed 
systemd-sysv.  Then I rebooted.  Unfortunately, it did not solve the 
problem.  The monitor is still "Unknown" and only 1024x768 resolution is 
available.

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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