If you by-pass KVM and connect directly, what happens? -- William
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 03:28:24PM -0400, Stephen via talk wrote: > I have an H97M-E MB with on board Intel video chips. > > I have a high def ASUS monitor. > > I connect through a KVM switch, the video being VGA > > For a long time I have had no trouble with 1920x1080 resolution. > > Things started getting flaky in the spring. An OS update prevented Ubuntu > system tools from recognizing the monitor and the highest res was 1024x768. > > I decided to upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 hoping that would fix. It did not > and there was a lot of pain in the upgrade. > > I finally found I could fix using xrandr. > > Last week Ubuntu issued another OS update and it again caused the monitor to > not be recognized and the max resolution to be 1024x768. > > I ensured the full update was performed as discussed in recent email to this > group. > > I upgraded to 16.10. No pain but no joy. > > I explored further with xrandr: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr > > I used > > cvt > > I got: Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 > 1120 -hsync +vsync > > xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 > 1120 -hsync +vsync > xrandr --addmode 1920x1080_60.00 > > After the last commend, my screen resolution was reduced to something like > 640x480 and an error window popped up. I could not read the full error > message because it was off the screen. It started with "Could not set" > > I had to do a system reset. > > So still no joy. Still stuck at 1024x768. > > I posted to the Ubuntu forums. No response yet. > > Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated. > > -- > Stephen > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
