Saturday, October 13, 2012
Debian wheezy on Fujitsu ESPRIMO
## UPDATE Dec 2012 ##
For some reason, frequently (once in 2 weeks), the machine hangs. When this happens, nothing responds.
Probably some issue with the video driver? The same problem is repeated in another machine with the same hardware and same Debian.
Have upgraded to 3.2.4 kernel. Lets see what happens :(
I recently installed Debian wheezy (SID as of 10 Oct 2012) on a Fujitsu Esprimo P710 E85+.
It came with a Fujitsu P27T-6P IPS display.
Installation was flawless and I configured the 500 GB HDD with LVM.
The problem was the display. Although lspci displayed that the video card was properly identified, it fell back to a low 1280x1024 resolution (shameful when you have a 27 inch widescreen display.)
So after some googling, and the ever helpful Linux discussion forums, I got it up and running and configured to what i want.
I got useful info from here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr
This is what i did:
The documentation for the display supported several higher resolutions. I wanted to try the 1920x1200 resolution.
Create a modeline using the cvt tool:
$ cvt 1920 1200
Use xrandr to display your current display settings (the below output is after I changed my resolution.):
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
1920x1200_60.00 59.9*+
1600x1200 60.0
1680x1050 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x800 59.8
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
¶ 12:58 AM 
## UPDATE Dec 2012 ##
For some reason, frequently (once in 2 weeks), the machine hangs. When this happens, nothing responds.
Probably some issue with the video driver? The same problem is repeated in another machine with the same hardware and same Debian.
Have upgraded to 3.2.4 kernel. Lets see what happens :(
Installation notes
I recently installed Debian wheezy (SID as of 10 Oct 2012) on a Fujitsu Esprimo P710 E85+.
It came with a Fujitsu P27T-6P IPS display.
Installation was flawless and I configured the 500 GB HDD with LVM.
The problem was the display. Although lspci displayed that the video card was properly identified, it fell back to a low 1280x1024 resolution (shameful when you have a 27 inch widescreen display.)
So after some googling, and the ever helpful Linux discussion forums, I got it up and running and configured to what i want.
I got useful info from here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr
This is what i did:
The documentation for the display supported several higher resolutions. I wanted to try the 1920x1200 resolution.
Create a modeline using the cvt tool:
$ cvt 1920 1200
Use xrandr to display your current display settings (the below output is after I changed my resolution.):
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
1920x1200_60.00 59.9*+
1600x1200 60.0
1680x1050 60.0
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x800 59.8
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Create a new modeline with the resolution you need:
$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync
Add the new mode
$ xrandr --addmode HDMI1 1920x1200_60.00
Set the new resolution
$ xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1200_60.00
Your screen should change to the new resolution. Play around with different resolutions till you get one which suits you.
To make the changes persistent, modify your xorg settings.
Edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf. Create the file if it dosent exists.
I added the following lines to 10-monitor.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI1"
Modeline "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200_60.00"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "intel" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
Device "Device0"
Monitor "HDMI1"
DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1200" #Choose the resolution
EndSubSection
EndSection
Restart your xserver for the settings to take effect and enjoy the higher resolution!
