Sunday, 20 December 2015

Fedora 23 - resolution only 800x600 with Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)

I've bought new laptop ASUS F555UB-DM035T and installed linux Fedora 23.
What surprised me a litte bit was that it started with a basic resolution 800x600 and it wasn't possible to set a better one.

As this notebook has NVIDIA GeForce 940M with Optimus technology, I thought it's caused by that and it will be fixed by Bumblebee installation.

But even after I successfully installed bumblebee the resolution wasn't fixed. At that moment I realized that bumblebee is just for enabling of the discrete Nvidia GPU and not a driver for the graphic adapters. So the problem is probably in a driver for the currently used graphic chip.

I can see that I have this one (when 3D chip is not enabled by bumblebee):
$ lspci | grep VGA 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics (rev 07)
Just note that my current kernel is:
$ uname -r 
4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64
After googling a little bit I find out for example this article with an explanation that Skylake GPU is considered as of "preliminary hardware support" by the Intel DRM kernel driver. And to be able to use it with all resolutions which the graphic card supports you have to start your kernel with i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 parameter.


How to add the kernel boot parameter to the GRUB?

It's written in the article I mentioned, but I will shortly repeat it.

A) Temporary - for test:

Reboot your pc and when Grub menu appears hit "E". There you can add it to the appropriate line:

B) Permannent

At first I tried to use graphic utility grub-customizer, but it didn't work so I went with the command line, which was much more easier when I found the right manual how to do it ;) Editing grub in Fedora really well described here, so I will not repeat it.
Here is just a screenshot so you can see how easy it is ;)


Ok, that's it.

As there are more things which bothers me - touch-pad is not working, wifi is regulary dropping, I have thousands of warnings about hardware recoverable error in the system log (probably connected with the wifi)... I will probably add few more articles when I solve it.

Edit (few days later): no more articles about this notebook:


  • New problem appeared - total freezing of the system - I had to do hard reset (probably after installation of VirtualBox, but I'm not 100% sure it was caused by that)
  • And as I was very sad because of all those incompatibility issues with the linux system I returned the Asus notebook and took Lenovo IdeaPad z51 instead

3 comments:

  1. The issues with wifi and touchpad appear only when connecting the external monitor? Did you notice some other issues regarding this laptop?

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  2. Hi, the issue with wifi and touchpad were there even without external monitor (I see that the sentence in the article is confusing, sorry about that).

    And because of those several issues + another one which appeared later - total freezing of the system (probably after virtualbox instalation, but I'm not 100% sure about that, I decided to return it and took Lenovo IdeaPad z51 instead (I have no troubles at all now with Fedora23).

    The ASUS laptop seemed fine when using Windows, but it had serious compatibility issues with linux.

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  3. Thank you very much. But there is still a possibility that these problems would appear even with Win I guess. I ve read alot about Asus freezing so it will be probably the best solution to avoind this Asus model....

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