VESA Driver does not see 1920x1200_60.00 of HP LP2465 on RV370 Radeon

[Danie Wessels]

On 20/01/2020 15:39, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 2020-01-20 6:37 a.m., Danie Wessels wrote:
>> On 17/01/2020 13:16, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> On 2020-01-16 10:49 p.m., Danie Wessels wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have just upgraded Centos 7 to 8 on this same hardware and previous
>>>> gnome installation was fine with 1920x1200 resolution on the HP LP2465
>>>> (24" ) monitor. (BTW: Upgrade did not go smooth due to insufficient
>>>> space on root partition).
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that the maximum resolution available for selection is
>>>> now only 1280x1024. Not sure if fglrx driver should now be used instead
>>>> of VESA. I don't know the next step to get the auto detect to correct
>>>> this.
>>>
>>> The next step is to check dmesg for why the radeon kernel driver didn't
>>> initialize HW acceleration.
>>>
>>>
>> Thank you for your response.
>>
>> I had look but, don't see anything. See attached file a.
> 
> There's no trace of the radeon kernel driver even getting loaded. Does
> running
> 
>   sudo modprobe radeon
> 
> manually work? If yes, maybe it's blacklisted e.g. in a file under
> /etc/modprobe.d/. If no, provide the output from modprobe and from dmesg
> after trying it.
> 
> 

The saga continues...

ls -l /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
totaal 13420
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     325 Jan  4 02:02 bls.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      44 Jan  4 02:02 build -> 
/usr/src/kernels/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  184825 Jan  4 02:02 config
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root     128 Jan 15 20:06 kernel
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  207133 Jan 15 20:13 modules.alias
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  209189 Jan 15 20:13 modules.alias.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     488 Jan  4 02:02 modules.block
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    7534 Jan  4 02:02 modules.builtin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    9748 Jan 15 20:13 modules.builtin.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   90662 Jan 15 20:13 modules.dep
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  141992 Jan 15 20:13 modules.dep.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     269 Jan 15 20:13 modules.devname
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     140 Jan  4 02:02 modules.drm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      59 Jan  4 02:02 modules.modesetting
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1595 Jan  4 02:02 modules.networking
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   98346 Jan  4 02:02 modules.order
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     563 Jan 15 20:13 modules.softdep
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  203645 Jan 15 20:13 modules.symbols
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  243404 Jan 15 20:13 modules.symbols.bin
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       5 Jan  4 02:02 source -> build
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  339854 Jan  4 02:02 symvers.gz
-rw-------  1 root root 3841454 Jan  4 02:02 System.map
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       6 Jan  4 02:02 updates
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      40 Jan 15 20:06 vdso
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 8106744 Jan  4 02:02 vmlinuz
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       6 Jan  4 02:02 weak-updates

# less /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/modules.alias
[root at donderweer-wessels ~]# grep radeon 
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/modules.*
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/modules.drm:radeon.ko
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/modules.modesetting:radeon.ko
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/modules.order:kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko


# insmod radeon
insmod: ERROR: could not load module radeon: No such file or directory
[root at donderweer-wessels ~]# ls 
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko
ls: kan nie toegang verkry na 
'/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko' 
nie: No such file or directory

# ls /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/

Regards
-- 
Danie Wessels