Help needed to rescue display resolution in antiX 19.1-sid-core(Marielle Franco)

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Hi there! I have 19.1-sid x64-core(Marielle Franco) frugal installed with grub entry and 5.5.0 kernel.I tried antiX-19.2-runit-sid_x64-core in usb.Runit-sid-core only boots in failsafe mode. So I tried to frugal install 19.2-runit-sid-core in failsafe mode.When I choose the frugal device (sda3) it boots into the existing 19.1 (Mariello Franco).The problem is display resolution is changed to 1024×768 in the existing 19.1. My display is LG19″ VGA with 1360×768 resolution.Now even when I boot through grub entry display remains at 1024×768 on 19.1 which has MATE desktop.I tried ‘xrandr’ it shows 1024×768 and lower resolutions only.Manually setting 1360×768 in ‘xrandr’ does not work.Also tried F7 in a live usb but there also no 1360×768.
Here is my grub entry I use to boot antiX19.1-sid_x64-core+MATE:

menuentry "antiX 19.1-sid (Marielle Franco) Frugal Install" {
    search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid c7b4468c-27d0-4ab0-93e0-82c69e1eeec6
    linux /antiX-Frugal-5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp/vmlinuz bdir=antiX-Frugal-5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp buuid=c7b4468c-27d0-4ab0-93e0-82c69e1eeec6 vga=791 persist_static tz=Asia/Kolkata
    initrd /antiX-Frugal-5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp/initrd.gz
}

Edit: MATE display setting says ‘Unknown Monitor’ and shows resolutions as xrandr.

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Anonymous wrote:

When I choose the frugal device (sda3) it boots into the existing 19.1 (Mariello Franco).

Are you expecting it to boot to the other new runit install? If this is the case, you will have to change it somehow. Hopefully christophe can explain how to.

Anonymous wrote:

The problem is display resolution is changed to 1024×768 in the existing 19.1. My display is LG19″ VGA with 1360×768 resolution.Now even when I boot through grub entry display remains at 1024×768 on 19.1 which has MATE desktop

I fear that it may be booting with the same boot parameters (failsafe) as your new runit edition. Inside your 19.1 Mate can you do this?
cat /proc/cmdline
and check
inxi -G

I don’t know how you are booting to 19.1 Mate, but you may need to change the boot parameters so that there is no failsafe option.

Anyway, when you have time, take a look at it.

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Thanks for your reply.Here are the details you asked

demo@antix1:~
$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/antiX-Frugal-5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp/vmlinuz bdir=antiX-Frugal-5.5.0-antix.1-amd64-smp buuid=c7b4468c-27d0-4ab0-93e0-82c69e1eeec6 vga=791 persist_static tz=Asia/Kolkata
demo@antix1:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: N/A 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: vesa resolution: 1024x768~N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.2 
demo@antix1:~

I think the driver in use was nouveau.

I don’t know how you are booting to 19.1 Mate, but you may need to change the boot parameters so that there is no failsafe option.

I have voidlinux installed and Im booting antiX by grub entry.

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Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: N/A

probably nouveau has been blacklisted (if it was running before). Do you remember if you had it running before or if you installed nvidia driver?

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No.I never install or use nvidia driver.

[Member Xecure]

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If you install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot, does the inxi -G change (and also the resolution)?

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Thanks for your quick reply @Xecure. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau seems already installed.

demo@antix1:~
$ sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
[sudo] password for demo: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is already the newest version (1:1.0.16-1).
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
demo@antix1:~

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Try adding the boot parameter
nouveau.modeset=1
just for testing if it now will boot with nouveau driver loaded. I don’t know how this works in frugal, so it may be in the boot menu (hitting ‘e’ key and then F10), or you need to edit some grub file in frugal.

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Thankyou so much for helping me.
1.Added nouveau.modeset=1 to /etc/default/grub in antiX19.1. No success.
2.Added nouveau.modeset=1 to grub entry and updated grub in voidlinux. No success.
@Xecure I have a month old snapshot of this 19.1 and I written it to a usb.It runs with correct resolution when boot without selecting frugal option. If I select frugal and boot existing 19.1-frugal problem persists.

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Anonymous wrote:

I have a month old snapshot of this 19.1 and I written it to a usb.It runs with correct resolution when boot without selecting frugal option.

Can you check if the inxi -G is the same as the one in your current frugal 19.1 ?
If it is the same, I have no idea how to help with this. Hopefully someone who has a lot of experience with frugal can help here.

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Thanks very much for being with me @Xecure.
This one is correct.

demo@antix1:~
$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1360x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: NVA8 v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.6 
demo@antix1:~

I noticed one more thing in frugal installed 19.1:In lightdm suspend, restart, shutdown options greyed out.

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Working system:

Anonymous wrote:

Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1360×768~60Hz

Problematic system:

Anonymous wrote:

Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] driver: N/A
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: vesa resolution: 1024×768~N/A

So, the working system has the device driver (nouveau) working, and the xorg setting of modesetting, while the problematic system has no driver for the graphic card identiied, and the xorg setting of vesa.

I will someday have to set up frugal and understand how it sets things up. On live-USB, the boot parameters are in /live/boot-dev/boot/grub/grub.cfg but fruigal must be different.
Let me read a bit the FAQ page to see if I can find something there.

Anonymous wrote:

I noticed one more thing in frugal installed 19.1:In lightdm suspend, restart, shutdown options greyed out.

This may help with that:

Xecure wrote:

Reason: lightdm is expecting systemd. The fix is easy (for both) edit /etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter with your preferred text editor (root privileges). Change
session optional pam_systemd.so
to
session optional pam_elogind.so

Then reboot.
If it still doesn’t work, you may need to install policykit-1 and/or pm-utils, but hopefully not.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Xecure. Reason: about lightdm

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The FAQ is not too clear, but in dolphin_oracle’s video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZGTBUW3bnA&feature=youtu.be&t=365

You could maybe edit some file in the /boot folder you can see on screen, or the grub.entry dolphin_oracle uses in this video.
The option nouveau.modeset=1 should load nouveau even if it is blacklisted, so adding it as a boot option should fix your problem (or so I believe).

You could also wait for a frugal expert to pop up and explain the correct way to do things.

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Lightdm fixed by changing session optional pam_systemd.so to elogind.so.Thanks. Only after watching D_O’s videos I did that frugal install. As I said in my reply #38078 I tried adding nouveau.modeset=1 to grub-entry also.As you said let us wait for the frugal gurus.Thankyou so much for helping me @Xecure!

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Im still wondering why, when I try to frugal-install antiX-19.2-runit-sid_x64-core in failsafe mode it boots the existing frugal antiX-19.1-sid_x64-core and chaged graphics settings irreversibly.

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