Devs,
Tonight's update to linux-6.9.4 and the firmware seems to have broken the
monitor type/size detection on Arch. I have a older Dell box I use for a media
center connected to a Samsung 59" TV. Arch has always properly detected it and
configured itself for full HD resolution.
After update tonight, it no longer does that. Instead both the console (I
use startx) and fluxbox (or any other desktop) boots and starts at 800x600 or
so -- which is quite unusable.
Has something changed in the kernel image generation or in the new firmware
that has caused this?
I'm not sure what the dmesg output was before, it always just worked, but
now I get:
[ 1.574525] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[ 1.600709] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3324.978 MHz
[ 1.600721] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles:
0x2fed77ea564, max_idle_ns: 440795278175 ns
[ 1.600739] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[ 1.608956] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.608963] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.609861] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Initialized overlay support.
[ 1.610256] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20230929 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1
[ 1.630543] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 1.630545] fbcon: Deferring console take-over
[ 1.630547] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
This box is grub2/MBR, so if something changed there, that may also be the
issue. Anybody have an idea what changed?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
