On 24/06/12 11:52PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Devs, Hello David, > 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? Well the kernel has a different source with each release, so of course both updated could have caused something like 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 Did you already have a chance to see if downgrading the linux package helps? You can get a older version from [here][0]: sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/linux/linux-6.9.3.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst Then please also share the full logs ;) Cheers, gromit [0]: https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/linux/
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