Bug#926903: Installation-report addition

[Tom Thekathyil <tomt@lottah.com>]

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?

Just for interest I had once tried to edit the screen resolution
config file back in 2001 (Red Hat) and the result was so bad I swore
never to touch the file again!

Thank you again for your help.

Regards, Tom Thekathyil

On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 08:49 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:26:24AM +1000, Tom Thekathyil wrote:
> > 
> > 2019/04/20
> > # remove --purge firmware-amd-graphics
> > (screen no longer shifted 10% to left but shifted 5% to right)
> > 
> > 2019/04/22
> > # apt update && apt upgrade
> > # apt install firmware-amd-graphics amd64-microcode
> > (screen still shifted 5% to right and console font is large)
> > 
>     ...
> > 
> > I have no idea what else I need to install.
> 
> Not all problems can be solved with `apt install ....`
> 
> 
> Screens being shifted horizontal does make me recall
> the old times of CRT-monitors and Xserver tuning.
> 
> I can't guide you to a nicely centered screen.
> I'm suggesting that /var/log/Xorg.log is checked for hsync value
> and to go tweak that setting.
> 
> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers

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