Video Settings Help

[JakeBones]

Hello, I am running DSL on a old 04' Dell Inspiron 9200 (Pentium M 1.7Ghz with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro and 2GB of DDR1 333mhz) and for some reason I am stuck at a resolution of 1440x900. I go into ArandR to change the res and 1440x900 is the best it gives me. (The screen installed is a WUXGA 60hz 1920x1200). Any Ideas as to how to use my full resolution? Is it potentially a driver issue with the 9600?

[grindstone]

Running live, installed to HD, or live/custom USB drive (or frugal)? 

If you're not installed, the zero-thinking "easy" (sic) answer is to see if anything (live) upstream supports it (antiX, Debian bookworm). 

I can't deep-dive this moment.  If you want to do the work yourself, figure out what driver you need for that card, dig into what it supports, and whether or not you have firmware

Code:

ls /usr/lib/firmware/amd*

for that.

If you've not done the DSL file restore, chances are very high that you do not have all the ATI firmware support (it's all big so some is held-back until the restore operation can occur). 

If you're not comfortable with diving into that but still want to work on it here, please post:

Code:

inxi -Zv7

Might not hurt to post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, too. 

If none of that is what you want, the direct path is to ask the ATI driver people on the X list (but don't be surprised if there's little/no reply unless you demonstrate having done basic minimal homework first).  https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/ 

If you figure out what you need and don't have it, we can go from there.

[JakeBones]

Hey, thanks grindstone. This is infact a full install to a SSD (msata with IDE converter). Did a buncha sleuthing using aptitude. The included xserver radeon and ati drivers are working with my GPU properly but I was missing the firmware which I installed yesterday (no idea if it automatically applies after install however). That sadly didn't fix the screen res being capped at 1440x900. As a result I believe it is a XRandR issue with it currently just not being an option so I am researching how to add it as a new mode! If I figure it out I will post soon!

[avion]

DSL may not load the 1920x1200 resolution configuration by default! You can manually edit the Xorg configuration file (usually located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf), add ‘Modeline "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync’ in the ‘Monitor’ section, save it, restart the X server, and then use ArandR to select the full resolution.
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