Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

[Tom Thekathyil <tomt@lottah.com>]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for trying to help.  You will note from my original report as
well as the follow-up on 28 April that I had installed the
'firmware-amd-graphics' package and still get the error message.

# apt search firmware-amd-graphics
> firmware-amd-graphics/testing, now 201901 14-1 all [installed]

# whereis firmware-amd-graphics
> firmware-amd-graphics:

Despite above response I am able to install and remove the package
easily.  But it makes no visible difference to the graphics or to
dmesg error message.

Changing to a less ancient monitor has helped center the screen but
there still remains the problem of font size:

a) tty1-6 use large fonts
b) MATE Terminal font size is normal
c) XTerm & UXTerm has small windows and small font
d) emacs and pluma have normal fonts

I can live with all these but it would be nice to get to the root of
the problem.  I expect you might like to fix it before stable release.

Regards, Tom Thekathyil

On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 12:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 10:51 +1000, Tom Thekathyil wrote:
> > Hi Geert,
> > 
> > Thank you so much for your prompt reply.
> > 
> > Your suggestion it could be a monitor problem provided the clue it
> > could be the 11-year old model used (Acer X223w) that was causing the
> > problem.  Swapped for a more current unit (Dell U2414H) and screen is
> > nicely centered now.
> > 
> > That still leaves the problem why dmesg shows
> >  '[     1.349124] [drm:amdgpu_pci_probe [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu
> >    requires firmware installed]'
> > Which firmware?
> [...]
> 
> The firmware-amd-graphics package.
> 
> Ben.
> 

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