Re: Screen resolution

[Andrew Wood <a.j.w@me.com>]

Hi Kevin


yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check 
which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the 
kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it 
means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD?

 353.942420] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.
[  363.669312] Raw EDID:
[  363.669327]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669335]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669343]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669350]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669357]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669364]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669371]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669378]      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[  363.669392] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.


On 06/01/12 00:59, Kevin Ross wrote:
> I also have an Intel 945GM graphics chip in my laptop.  Works fine for 
> me on Wheezy.  Sounds like you're running the VESA (generic) graphics 
> driver instead of the Intel one.  Do you have xserver-xorg-video-intel 
> installed?  Also, if you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, rename it to 
> something else, and try restarting X.
>
> Hope this helps!
> -- Kevin