stuck on 800x600

[Dustin Hines]

Intel integrated graphics, HPE DL360 Gen6 server VM running Ubuntu 18.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-74.84-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 10 00:22:23 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: I just need to know a workaround
GraphicsCard:
 Device [1234:1111] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc. Device [1af4:1100]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-06 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-74-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ro maybe-ubiquity
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/01/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: SeaBIOS
dmi.bios.version: rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: QEMU
dmi.chassis.version: pc-i440fx-4.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnSeaBIOS:bvrrel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org:bd04/01/2014:svnQEMU:pnStandardPC(i440FX+PIIX,1996):pvrpc-i440fx-4.1:cvnQEMU:ct1:cvrpc-i440fx-4.1:
dmi.product.name: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
dmi.product.version: pc-i440fx-4.1
dmi.sys.vendor: QEMU
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.97-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.0.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.0.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git1912100730.f66d39~oibaf~b
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks for the bug report.

The first thing I notice is that the kernel doesn't have a driver for your GPU because it seems to be QEMU's "-vga std" option. So Xorg defaults to 800x600 and does not support any other modes besides the default one...

[ 27.274] (==) FBDEV(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 24
[ 27.274] (==) FBDEV(0): RGB weight 888
[ 27.274] (==) FBDEV(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 27.274] (==) FBDEV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 27.275] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: EFI VGA (video memory: 1408kB)
[ 27.275] (II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against framebuffer device...
[ 27.275] (II) FBDEV(0): checking modes against monitor...
[ 27.275] (--) FBDEV(0): Virtual size is 800x600 (pitch 800)
[ 27.275] (**) FBDEV(0): Built-in mode "current": 48.0 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.1 Hz
[ 27.275] (II) FBDEV(0): Modeline "current"x0.0 48.00 800 832 928 1024 600 604 608 624 -hsync -vsync -csync (46.9 kHz b)
[ 27.275] (==) FBDEV(0): DPI set to (96, 96)

This is understandably annoying, but your only other options are to:

  * Get SeaBIOS/QEMU to support other modes; or
  * Get QEMU to emulate a different GPU type using "-vga ..."