4K on Debian Dell 13-5378 (Inspiron 13 5000 i5) only 2048 x

[akrueger]

Gonna share one more trick that I had to use today ... synaptic ... Custom Filters ... "Marked Changes", go over to the right pane, deselect chromium for installation and run the upgrade.

Great, thanks!

[akrueger]

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inxi -G

Graphics:  Card: Intel Device 5916
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.0 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.05hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.2

[akrueger]

Got his PM, the publicly interesting part I am answering here:

Hello there,

I came across your thread because I just purchased Inspiron 13. ...

However, I must say, reading your posts, I am little lost when you talk about compiling latest kernel, trying various options to get debian working.

Can you please put some step by step information to get debian install to full working desktop for this particular laptop?

...

Use the USB port on the RIGHT side of the keyboard, that is USB2, see http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=633775#p633775


In the end, I followed wizard10000's suggestion (actually mentioned by Head_on_a_Stick for the 1st time) to try out debian stretch (testing).
I am not 100% convinced it will become my system now, and had little time recently to test it further, but it seems to be running well so far.

This is really helpful:

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apt-get install apt-listbugs apt-listchanges reportbug

It stops when trying to install packages with known bugs, on the CLI apt-get as well as in synaptic, very comfortable.


Debian Testing comes with kernel4.8 so for me no need to compile my own kernel.

Other than that, the above thread contains many interesting aspects, but I think this is the summary - or not?

[akrueger]

P.S.: When you find out, how to switch on the right mouse button below the touchpad, please tell me

[theteju]

Update:
I had to disable "secure boot" and Enable "Legacy boot" from the bios settings (pressing F2 on Dell machine) in order to boot from usb. (hope that helps someone).

P.S.: When you find out, how to switch on the right mouse button below the touchpad, please tell me

I have not installed any system yet but it looks like, on USB live image, everything worked out of the box on my machine.
I checked the "uname -a" the linux distro I had on USB has kernel 4.6.0 something.
even right button below touchpad works out of the box. wireless card, Touch screen works. That is all I have tested so far.

Thanks.

[akrueger]

Update:
I had to disable "secure boot"

Yes, me too.

... and Enable "Legacy boot" from the bios settings (pressing F2 on Dell machine) in order to boot from usb. (hope that helps someone).

I read that is discouraged in case you want to DualBoot Windows.
I actually succeeded without "Legacy BIOS"

I have not installed any system yet but it looks like, on USB live image, everything worked out of the box on my machine.
I checked the "uname -a" the linux distro I had on USB has kernel 4.6.0 something.
even right button below touchpad works out of the box. wireless card, Touch screen works. That is all I have tested so far.
Thanks.

Great. I am happy for you. Yes, my system works fine too.

After upgrading, this is my kernel now:

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uname -a
Linux Dell13-5378 4.9.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.2-2 (2017-01-12) x86_64 GNU/Linux

This I still not have solved.

P.S.: When you find out, how to switch on the right mouse button below the touchpad, please tell me

Getting used to two finger touchpad rightMouse emulation - instead of right mouseclick. Not really nice though. Anyone with ideas?

[akrueger]

Gonna share one more trick that I had to use today -
...
Okay, chromium's broke but I want the rest of the upgrades. No easy way to do that with apt, so I fire up synaptic, tell it to mark all upgrades then under Custom Filters, select "Marked Changes", go over to the right pane, deselect chromium for installation and run the upgrade.
...

That sounds as if it could be useful right now, because gcc-6 has a bug, and I cannot do

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apt upgrade

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...
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of gcc-6 (6.2.1-5 → 6.3.0-5) <Outstanding>
 b1 - #814978 - gcc-6(+gcc-5): gnat paths are wrong due to ada-gcc-name.diff
Summary:
 gcc-6(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] 

If I answer that with 'n' then nothing gets upgraded. But I do not dare to answer 'y'.

So I tried synaptic.

I cannot get your procedure working. I have tried this:

• synaptic
• mark all upgrades
• Marked Changes
• rightClick on 'gcc-6' ... Unmark
• Mark additional required changes? (packagekit, packagekit-tools) ... Mark
• Apply

The 'Applying changes ... Installing software ...' dialogue shows the exact same message as above.

(Actually, synaptic could be improved: If 'apt-listbugs' is installed (or if it gets stuck, waiting for a user response), then it should automatically open the details tab - to show all such messages. Otherwise - how to know?)


I can just not unselect 'gcc-6' in synaptic. What to do?


EDIT:
Ah, now that was easy. Just pressing 'p' in 'apt upgrade' ... solved it all. Forget synaptic.
At some moment I should probably 'unpin' - right?

[akrueger]

This I still not have solved.

P.S.: When you find out, how to switch on the right mouse button below the touchpad, please tell me

Getting used to two finger touchpad rightMouse emulation - instead of right mouseclick. Not really nice though.

Anyone with ideas? How to enable the right mouse button?

[akrueger]

Got a 4K screen working on Windows, on a Dell 13-5378 (Inspiron 13 5000 i5).
3840 pixels × 2160 (via HDMI, only 30Hz because 60Hz would need DisplayPort).

Now same hardware, with Debian stretch testing
... I only get a max resolution of 2048 x 1152

My Debian & machine is this:

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uname -a
Linux Dell13-5378 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1 (2017-03-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

inxi -GSM
System:    Host: Dell13-5378 Kernel: 4.9.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7
           Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 13-5378
           Mobo: Dell model: 0P87CH v: A00 UEFI: Dell v: 1.6.1 date: 02/13/2017
Battery    BAT0: charge: 36.8 Wh 109.3% condition: 33.7/36.8 Wh (92%)
Graphics:  Card: Intel Device 5916
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.05hz, 2048x1152@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6

There is more info about this same machine in this thread.


What to do now? I had the same problem = max resolution of 2048 x 1152 with an older Laptop - that Intel 3000 card just cannot render more pixels. However, this new one has an Intel 620, and as mentioned, I got the full 4K working on Windows. Beautiful. Not gonna live on Windows much longer though - so please help me on Debian now. Thanks.

Thanks a lot!



EDIT: Tried:

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xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 3840x2160_30.00
xrandr: cannot find mode 3840x2160_30.00

Then following some forum thread, I've tried this:

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cvt 3840 2160 30.00
# 3840x2160 29.98 Hz (CVT) hsync: 65.96 kHz; pclk: 338.75 MHz
Modeline "3840x2160_30.00"  338.75  3840 4080 4488 5136  2160 2163 2168 2200 -hsync +vsync

xrandr --newmode "3840x2160_30.00"  338.75  3840 4080 4488 5136  2160 2163 2168 2200 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 3840x2160_30.00
xrandr

But:

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xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode 3840x2160_30.00
xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed

[GarryRicketson]

Please do not cross post,..
The topic you stared here:
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is the same as the post here, it appears you copied/pasted
it into another topic/category.


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