[ale] Screen resolution in X versus console

[Alex Carver]

On 10/15/2013 02:31, JD wrote:
> 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?
> 

Well xrandr is not the solution in this case. That changes the X11
display resolution (which is fine, doesn't need changing) but doesn't
fix the console resolution when I'm back in text mode.