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

From Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768
Date 2015-12-02 11:30 +0100
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Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> writes:

> On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:39 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> "Now", as in Stretch and/or Sid? I searched in Jessie and failed to
>> discover
>> any available firmware-amd-graphics. Is another repo besides main and
>> updates
>> required? I booted same machine to Stretch, and neither package was
>> found.
>> And, Stretch is also using FBDEV, like OP here, and stuck in
>> 1280x1024 on a
>> 1680x1050 display, with libdrm-radeon1, xserver-xorg-video-ati and
>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon installed. ???
>> 
>
> Sid and/or stretch, I don't recall exactly when the split was made.
>
> The clue is in the name, nonfree ;)

Ah yes. I knew I fixed it by installing firmware-linux-nonfree, as I
knew that pulled in the radeon firmware; I was unaware that it was split
in sid, and since I run sid on this laptop, I assumed that the split
that I found dated back to Jessie.

And you know what they say about assuming things... ;)

Mart

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Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 01:10 +0100
  Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> - 2015-12-01 01:50 +0100
    Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 02:20 +0100
      Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 02:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 08:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 08:40 +0100
            Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 09:40 +0100
            Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:10 +0100
          Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-01 16:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 17:30 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 18:00 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 18:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-01 18:20 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-01 22:40 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-12-01 23:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-02 02:50 +0100
                (SOLVED) Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except  1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 06:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 11:30 +0100
                Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-02 20:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> - 2015-12-01 02:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> - 2015-12-01 02:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-01 13:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:10 +0100

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