From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] How to fix screen resolution detection?
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:50:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcD6oLGZmei7ipPG@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee671t2f.fsf@intel.com>
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:14:48PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > The screen resolution on my laptop is not reported accurately. Here's
> > an extract from the output of xdpyinfo:
> >
> > screen #0:
> > dimensions: 3200x1800 pixels (847x476 millimeters)
> > resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
> >
> > The number of pixels is correct, but the size and resolution values
> > smack of a bogus default. The actual width of the screen (determined
> > with a tape measure) is about 11.5 inches (291 mm), which yields a
> > resolution of 280 dots per inch (11 dots per mm), approximately.
> > Most definitely _not_ 96 dpi.
> >
> > Presumably X gets the size/resolution information from Wayland, which
> > gets it from the kernel, which gets it from the firmware. So the kernel
> > driver is the logical place to start in figuring where things are going
> > wrong. The laptop uses i915; here are the relevant lines from the
> > kernel log:
> >
> > [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.14.9-200.fc34.x86_64 (mockbuild@bkernel02.iad2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20210728 (Red Hat 11.2.1-1), GNU ld version 2.35.2-5.fc34) #1 SMP Thu Sep 30 11:55:35 UTC 2021
> >
> > [ 0.463895] efifb: probing for efifb
> > [ 0.463913] efifb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, using 22500k, total 22500k
> > [ 0.463916] efifb: mode is 3200x1800x32, linelength=12800, pages=1
> > [ 0.463919] efifb: scrolling: redraw
> > [ 0.463920] efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0
> > [ 0.464028] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 400x112
> > [ 0.474894] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device
> >
> > [ 2.888858] fb0: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
> > [ 2.891260] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
> > [ 2.891318] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
> > [ 2.902665] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
> > [ 2.904833] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin (v1.27)
> > [ 2.947359] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20201103 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
> > [ 2.949468] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
> > [ 2.949803] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input9
> > [ 2.964371] fbcon: i915 (fb0) is primary device
> > [ 2.979854] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 400x112
> > [ 3.012355] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915 frame buffer device
> >
> > Now, I know nothing about the kernel's graphics subsystems. How can I
> > find out what size/resolution information i915 is getting and passing to
> > Wayland? If it's wrong, how can I fix it?
>
> I could be wrong, but I think userspace figures the dimensions from the
> EDID itself, not through a kernel API.
>
> I actually get slightly different results from xrandr, xdpyinfo, and
> edid-decode on the EDID. What does edid-decode tell you for the
> dimensions? For me it's 'edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-DP-3/edid' but
> replace the subdir with your info.
>
> xdpyinfo also gives me 96x96 dpi, probably bogus.
Here's the result:
# edid-decode -s /sys/class/drm/card0-eDP-1/edid
Block 0, Base EDID:
EDID Structure Version & Revision: 1.4
Vendor & Product Identification:
Manufacturer: SDC
Model: 22602
Made in: 2015
Basic Display Parameters & Features:
Digital display
Bits per primary color channel: 8
DisplayPort interface
Maximum image size: 29 cm x 17 cm
Gamma: 2.20
DPMS levels: Standby Suspend Off
Supported color formats: RGB 4:4:4, YCrCb 4:4:4
First detailed timing includes the native pixel format and preferred refresh rate
Color Characteristics:
Red : 0.6396, 0.3300
Green: 0.2998, 0.5996
Blue : 0.1503, 0.0595
White: 0.3134, 0.3291
Established Timings I & II: none
Standard Timings: none
Detailed Timing Descriptors:
DTD 1: 3200x1800 60.000 Hz 16:9 108.960 kHz 361.310 MHz (293 mm x 165 mm)
Hfront 48 Hsync 32 Hback 36 Hpol N
Vfront 2 Vsync 5 Vback 9 Vpol N
Manufacturer-Specified Display Descriptor (0x0f): 00 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 37 82 05 46 00 '...........7..F.'
Alphanumeric Data String: 'SAMSUNG'
Alphanumeric Data String: '133YL02-C02'
Checksum: 0x41
The 293 mm x 165 mm values listed on the "DTD 1" line seem right.
Maybe a little larger than the actual size but close enough.
So it looks as though the problem must lie in userspace (Wayland or X).
Any advice on whom I should ask next?
Alan Stern
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-20 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 16:19 [Intel-gfx] How to fix screen resolution detection? Alan Stern
2021-12-18 21:37 ` Alan Stern
2021-12-18 21:37 ` Alan Stern
2021-12-20 10:14 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jani Nikula
2021-12-20 21:50 ` Alan Stern [this message]
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