Re: Upgrade to Jessie lost all monitor resolutions except 1024x768
On 11/30/2015 01:21 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I have been holding off on upgrading to Jessie, but I decided that it
was time to at least try it out.
I made a copy of my current system in unused space on my disk and
updated lilo. After verifying that I could boot into both setups, I
upgraded the copy to Jessie after installing sysvinit-core to avoid
systemd. It boots and lets me log in on multiple consoles as
different users. Each user can run startx and gets their own session
on separate vts specific to the user. This was my big question, and
it seems to work fine. (We'll have to see about Jessie+1, it seems.)
My problem now is screen resolution. All I get is 1024x768. Under
Wheezy I get 15 different resolutions from 720x400 and 640x480 up to
1920x1080. Jessie says that the monitor is "Unknown" and only allows
me to use 1024x768. How do I get X to recognize my monitor under Jessie?
Marc
I decided, since this was just a test, to install systemd-sysv (which
should remove sysvinit-core) so that I could see if booting with systemd
would make a difference. But...
I can't install systemd-sysv. I get the following:
# aptitude install systemd-sysv
No candidate version found for systemd-sysv
No candidate version found for systemd-sysv
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
and:
# aptitude show systemd-sysv
No current or candidate version found for systemd-sysv
Package: systemd-sysv
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 215-17+deb8u2
Priority: important
Section: admin
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
<pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 78.8 k
Depends: systemd (= 215-17+deb8u2)
PreDepends: systemd
Conflicts: sysvinit-core, sysvinit-core, upstart, upstart, systemd-sysv
Replaces: sysvinit (< 2.88dsf-44~), sysvinit (< 2.88dsf-44~),
sysvinit-core, sysvinit-core, upstart, upstart
Description: system and service manager - SysV links
systemd is a replacement for sysvinit. It is dependency-based and
able to read the LSB init script headers in addition to
parsing rcN.d links as hints.
It also provides process supervision using cgroups and the ability to
not only depend on other init script being started,
but also availability of a given mount point or dbus service.
This package provides the manual pages and links needed for systemd to
replace sysvinit. Installing systemd-sysv will
overwrite /sbin/init with a link to systemd.
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
which suggests that it exists, but nothing is installable. Now, I would
be happier to get this working without systemd, but shouldn't systemd be
installable?
Marc
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