Re: Screen resolution

[Kevin Ross <kevin@familyross.net>]

On 01/05/2012 06:31 PM, Andrew Wood wrote:
> 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.

You can tell by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  If after looking at the 
log file, the problem isn't readily apparent, post the contents here, 
and someone should be able to figure out what's wrong.

-- Kevin

> 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