I’m running Tumbleweed on an old PowerEdge 650. I have limited resources and currently running the LXQt desktop. The display settings are set to 640x480 and there isn’t any option to change in the desktop settings or YaST. Does anyone have any suggestion on how to resolve this ? The resolution is making it impossible navigate and perform simple tasks. I included some system info below - appreciate any thoughts. Thank you
Welcome to openSUSE Forums. I doubt you can do very much with such old graphics hardware. There’s no radeon driver support for such legacy product, so as you see only basic framebuffer support (eg vesafb) is available. You might be able to coax a slightly higher display resolution using this particular driver with a custom Xorg config file.
It will likely no more work as fbdev user space access has been removed. Now the default console driver is simpledrmdb which is implemented on top of the firmware framebuffer. It should work with Xorg modesetting driver.
As you effectively have firmware framebuffer, you get whatever firmware set up for you. You may try changing resolution in bootloader settings, it will be inherited by the loaded kernel.
You might find the comments in the Reddit post interesting (2 years ago) … as this person has that machine - labels on the components suggest the machine is 20+ years old.
“No idea what to do with this server I got from work. It’s a dell poweredge 650”
Yes, ‘simpledrm’ (DRM/KMS driver for framebuffer platform devices) is likely active here. Setting the display mode via the ‘video=’ kernel boot parameter might be okay for console purposes, but no guarantee that it will persist once the Xorg graphical display environment takes over.
Thank you everyone for the replies. I will continue to play around with this based upon the suggestions above. I realize this is very old machine but I have tons of old hardware here running various version of Linux - I don’t keep this machine on given it’s power consumption but would like to see if I can get it more operational. Again, thank you for the replies. Very much appreciated.