[ale] Screen resolution in X versus console
JD
jdp at algoloma.com
Tue Oct 15 05:31:18 EDT 2013
On 10/14/2013 09:49 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with one system I just installed. The display
> is a widescreen 1920x1200 and the system has an Nvidia GeForce 5200
> installed. The nvidia drivers from the Debian repository are installed
> (nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx).
>
> The console framebuffer seems to only want to work at 1024x768 but X
> starts up (starting from the command line and having set the nvidia
> driver in xorg.conf) and switches to 1920x1200x24 with no problems.
> However, upon exiting X, the card is now at 1920x1200 and the display
> complains about being out of range.
>
> When I configured grub to load a higher resolution (via gfx_payload) I
> ended up with the same problem, out of range on the monitor. I was only
> able to get the console framebuffer to work at 1024x768.
>
> I know I'm missing something somewhere but I haven't been able to figure
> out what's going on. I'll need to double check that nouveau is properly
> blacklisted (I think it is by the installer).
Does xrandr help?
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