On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 02:56:09PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > Thanks for the ideas. "video=VGA-1:1920x1080@60" (as indicated by > xrandr) didn't work well. The text console showed 2 copies of the > screen side-by each. Imagine working with the "screen" or "tmux" > program, or the vim ":vsplit" command. And it was offset 3/4 inch down > and to the right. X Window showed only one image, but the down and > right shift was still there. I couldn't see the autoraising menubar at > the bottom of the screen in ICEWM, so it was unusable. > > "video=VGA-1:1920x1080@60m", where the "m" is to allow some margin in > the calculations, got rid of the double image in text console, but the > down and right shift was still there in both the text console, and X. > > I tried sticking "xrandr -s 1920x1080" in my .xinitrc. It "works", > but the fonts are noticably "fatter" after a disconnected boot versus > a connected boot. > > I ran "cp /sys/class/drm/card0/card0-VGA-1/edid my_edid.bin" and I'll > try loading it in the kernel later today.
Plan A [d531][root][~] get-edid > my_edid.bin This is read-edid version 3.0.1. Prepare for some fun. Attempting to use i2c interface Looks like no busses have an EDID. Sorry! Attempting to use the classical VBE interface Illegal instruction Plan B I generated an xorg.conf file (Xorg -configure), dumped it in /etc/X11 and inserted... Option "ModeDebug" "True" as per https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-992752.html The result I got in the log was... (WW) intel(0): Option "ModeDebug" is not used ...this was getting annoying Remember what I mentioned about "fatter" fonts? This brought back memories of the bad old days when we needed a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to run X. DPI was one of the things we worried about. After much experimentation, I inserted the line... /usr/bin/xterm -e xrandr -s 1920x1080 && xrandr --dpi 96 & ...into my .xinitrc, and every thing looks just fine inside X. In case you were wondering, no... /usr/bin/xterm -e xrandr -s 1920x1080 --dpi 96 & ...does *NOT* work. Yes, the setup is a kludge, but it works. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
