I checked the results of a Live Debian 9 image against my hardware. Booting on an USB key containing this image (no parameters on the command line) gave me a perfectly acceptable confguration : correct X session in high resolution, no kernel shenanigans, etc... The only imperfection I could find s a misidentification of my monitor (mine is supposed to be manufactured by Asus). See enclosed Xorg log for details. I suppose that this shows that something has changed between the 4.9 kernel of the Debian Live image and the 4.11 kernel current in testing. This something may be related to the screen identification method used by X which, as far as I understand it, is implemented in the kernel. Another symptom : when I boot on the Live image, I get a crisp console with small character (I did not measure, but I'd say about 160-200 characters wide and about 50 lines) ; the console I get when booting testing is 24x80, with a poor font (on a 22" 16/9 screen : yuck...). Various attempts to set a better resolution in console have failed. HTH, -- Emmanuel Charpentier
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