On Fri, 29 May 2020, George N. White III wrote:
Have you tried the vga= kernel boot parameter? For Xwindows it would be
good to get something other than VESA running, either i915 or by adding a
graphics card.
I'll try that next,
though the problem seems to be that a power that be
seems to think I only have a 640x480 screen.
Vesa finds larger modes.
I had a look at the dmesg log on an old system with Nvidia card. It was
set to display
the startup messages, which were initially at low res then switched to the
resolution of
the monitor. The switch appears to occur when dmesg reports that nouveau
has started.
Have you looked in dmesg for any indication of why it doesn't load the i915
driver?
I'll try.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/i915.html says: "The drm/i915
driver supports all (with the exception of some very early models)
integrated GFX chipsets with both Intel display and rendering blocks." It
is possible that your system is one of those "very early models", or that
the kernel developers removed support for some not quite as early models.
The driver also needs a .bin
firmware file. I have had problems with other hardware when upstream
omitted the firmware files
needed by old hardware.
I have the latest and greatest firmware.
--
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