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twin

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 47

[kinda SOLVED]video-intel KMS problems

Hello everyone.

I did a fresh install and I'd really appreciate some help setting up KMS properly.

So far I'm able to run gnome-shell with all the effects,
but:

1. I only get 1024x768 resolution instead of my native: 1920x1080.
2. console is limited to small area when booting up (even though I did as the wiki suggests)
3. I followed the wiki:(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel) step by step, several times
but nothing I do seems to have any effect! 

At last, I decided to stop rebooting and ask for help.
please help me troubleshoot this!

thank you for your time!

p.s.1 here's a similar topic I found
though in my case I don't get weird artifacts

p.s.2. my graphics card is the one built in core i5.

[edit] I just fixed the resolution problem: for some unknown reason, gnome did not have my monitor selected by default
instead it defaulted to an "unknown device" which only supports 800χ600 and 1024χ1768. Weird.

Last edited by twin (2011-11-25 17:28:21)

Preycon

Member

From: México, D.F.

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 51

Re: [kinda SOLVED]video-intel KMS problems

Are you using a laptop or desktop?

Cause I had a similar problem with a nettop with an Intel Atom procesor; the fix for me was to disable the LVDS in grub to get working my native resolution.