Thu, 14 Nov 2024 19:41:06 -0500 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> :
bent fender composed on 2024-11-11 19:36 (UTC-0500):
My temporary GPU card is:
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770]
About a month ago the GUI desktop on my most often used linux installations went form high-res (1920x1080) to something rather very low-res. I've never had VoidLinux in GUI yet at all, and all but one of the others use one DM or another. In slackware I always did "startx" and now that too goes to a low-res desktop.
Tumbleweed is different! If I carry on with SDDM in low-res to log-in then it too will bring up GUI is low-res BUT if I do it the slackware way (logging-in in terminal mode followed by startx) then I get the previously always successful 1920x1080 desktop ..as I should.
So where is Tumbleweed getting this from while all the others have gone tango-uniform? And what's amiss in my other distros?
What can I look at to TS?
Is this the same computer you had the NVidia GT 640 card in? If yes, di you still have NVidia drivers installed,
Yes, the only package yast shows with nvidia in the 'description' is ffnv-codec-devel.
not having completely purged them and their corresponding /etc/X11/ .conf files for use with the HD 5770?
There isn't a single .conf file under /etc/X11 xf86-video-ati is installed everything with nouveau in it is installed
The Juniper cards are 15 year old Radeons, predating the release of amdgpu firmware and drivers.
Rather interesting, when I log in and do 'startx' at first the screen flashes in low-res but then (I presume as plasma takes over) it goes into high-res. So what is plasma using? It gives me 1920 x 1080 /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/ has thses 00-general.conf 10-plasma.conf 10-theme.conf 11-kwin_wayland.conf 20-breeze-openSUSE.conf
Do all distros have required radeon GPU firmware installed.
I haven't looked at them yet
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