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	2015-12-01 10:10 +0100
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Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> writes:

> Another possibility is that Jessie provides firmware your ATI gfxcard
> requires in a separate firmware package that is not installed, or
> maybe the ATI driver package didn't get installed at all.

I manage a bunch of workstations with exactly this issue. I had to
install firmware-linux-nonfree to get X to recognise the Radeon cards in
these machines. Since firmware-linux-nonfree pulls in
firmware-amd-graphics, I suspect installing the latter will be
sufficient for OP.

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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