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Cannot set resolution on KDE5

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infestor
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Cannot set resolution on KDE5

#1 Post by infestor »

i am running debian testing (buster) and KDE plasma 5.8.7
i have nouveau installed:

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$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau              1544192  0
mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau
ttm                    98304  1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper        155648  1 nouveau
drm                   360448  3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 nouveau
wmi                    16384  2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
video                  40960  1 nouveau
button                 16384  1 nouveau
my videocard seems to be detected by debian:

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$ lspci | grep -e VGA -e 3D
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] (rev a1)
but i am stuck with this horrible 1024*768 resolution:

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PS: i suspect that the vendor info is wrong. i have no idea why debian recognized my nvidia gpu as SGI :x

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$ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
    Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
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Kryten
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Re: Cannot set resolution on KDE5

#2 Post by Kryten »

Install the nvidia driver,nouveau doesnt yet support a 1060 card.
Had the same problem with my gtx 950 could only get 1024x768 resolution.

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Re: Cannot set resolution on KDE5

#3 Post by infestor »

Kryten wrote:Install the nvidia driver,nouveau doesnt yet support a 1060 card.
Had the same problem with my gtx 950 could only get 1024x768 resolution.
how did you install the linux headers when you were installing the proprietary nvidia drivers? i can't seem to install them.
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Re: Cannot set resolution on KDE5

#4 Post by Kryten »

Added contrib and non-free to the sources list, then i installed the driver using synaptic package manager.
Selected nvidia -driver (375.66) that pulled in everything needed for install.
Dont no why you cant install the headers im running stretch not buster.

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Re: Cannot set resolution on KDE5

#5 Post by stevepusser »

"SGI" refers to the original developers of the openGL software that comes with Debian and every other Linux, not to your hardware.
MX Linux packager and developer

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