so I just upgraded an old Dell Optiplex 760 - Core 2 Duo - 686 class box Fedora 28 -> 29 and all manner of things went wrong. I had to fall back to runlevel 2 boot, and fiddled. switching display manager to lightdm helped, allowing a graphical boot again. Resolution is very low, mouse arrow is huge. it turns out that /sys/class/drm doesnt exist. dmesg | grep drm is empty. ISTM this is the problem - if the kernel doesnt know about the monitor then resolution is not available to display manager either. I was able to figure a horrid workaround, by plugging in a better monitor and cold-booting afterwards, I swapped vga connector back to original monitor, it kept the same better resolution I have built my own kernel, v4.20-rc3+ which works properly, and has /sys/class/drm/* as expected I built it like 1- cp /boot/config-f29-mumble .config; 2- make localmodconfig 3- make xconfig - flip 64bit build off on this 32bit box 4- make; make install Aside: I think step 3 should be unnecessary - build box == install box which should correct/override any defaults taken from 1, or by other operations of 2 I have since dnf updated, rebooted to 19.2, it exhibits same problem and rebooting to rc3+ fixes resolution problem wo doing the nasty monitor swap does anyone else seeing anything odd (I presume) related to old 32bit hardware and video card ? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
