[CentOS] Graphic setup issues...help wanted

Sun Jan 10 21:33:45 UTC 2021
Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com>

The problem. I can NOT change my screen resolution from GUI. I boot to 
multi-user, then get "into" graphical.

First, some background.

My original install of CentOS 8 -- maybe 8.2? -- about 3 months ago -- 
went pretty well but I kept having lockup issues. No issues with 
graphics using intel graphics  or sound using either aplay at command 
line or GDM. (I also have NVIDIA which I have not configured.)

I upgraded to 8.3 at some point. Still all OK with graphics but still 
lock up issues.

At some point, I decided to start completely over and did a clean 
install of 8.4. I am now using CentOS8 Stream as my primary repo.

Some questions?

When I first boot, where is the probe of my video card done? Looking at 
DMESG, I couldn't determine this.

When I "start" graphical, I get the following messages which are 
apparently related, from Xorg.1.log module loading section...

[   985.857] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[   985.857] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[   985.859] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   985.859]     compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.0.0
[   985.859]     ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[   985.859] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 0
[   985.859] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 1
[   985.859] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2
[   985.859] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[   985.859] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[   985.859] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[   985.859] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   985.859]     compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.20.10
[   985.859]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   985.859]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1
[   985.859] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[   985.859] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[   985.859] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   985.859]     compiled for 1.20.3, module version = 0.5.0
[   985.859]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   985.859]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[   985.859] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[   985.859] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[   985.859] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   985.859]     compiled for 1.20.3, module version = 2.4.0
[   985.859]     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[   985.859]     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[   985.859] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[   985.859] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[   985.859] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[   985.859] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[   985.859] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[   985.859] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

 From messages I've seen on this problem, the lack of

/dev/dri/card0

is the crux of the issue but I have NO idea of how it gets created.

So, right now I'm stuck  at a default resolution of 1024 x 768

Thanks for any help.

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"Don't let anyone dull your sparkle."

MzK