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txykumat
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 Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:49 pm Post subject: Crazy Screen Resolution on Console |
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| I bought this laptop with 4k screen and first thing I want to do with it is remove windows and install gentoo. But I am having problem because no matter what I do, console font too small / resolution too high and unchangeable that I cannot see what command I am typing into. Once I get GUI, say KDE, I can scale it to however I want, but in Grub, booting, before /etc/init.d/xdm start , everything is wrong. Could someone with experience with 4k screen laptop help me set things right so I can see what I am typing at console? |
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DONAHUE
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presuming you are using nouveau or radeon or intel video driver and pirating an old wiki: | Quote: | Generally, a properly configured kernel is all that you need for KMS. It should read the EDID information, and use the highest available resolution.
Forcing a Resolution
If you get a black screen, an incorrect resolution or want to specify the resolution to use, you can force a resolution on the kernel command-line. This can be useful if KMS auto detection fails with rare/incorrect EDID from the monitor.
When using a driver utilizing Kernel Mode Setting, you do not specify any driver name in the video= parameter. For example, setting the screen resolution to 1280x1024, 24bps at 75Hz would be just:
video=1280x1024-24@75
If it doesn't seem to have any effect, you may need to specify the output interface explictly:
video=VGA-1:1280x1024-24@75
You can read the commit message of this feature for further details.
Disabling Modesetting
If you want to disable KMS you will need to pass nomodeset to the kernel. Example:
File: /boot/grub/grub.conf
title Linux - No Framebuffer
root (0,0)
kernel /example-kernel-2.6.29 root=/dev/root nomodeset |
I would add video=1024x768-24@60 (you may need to specify connection - video=hdmi-1: 1024x768@60Hz
To define connections, run: for p in /sys/class/drm/*/status; do con=${p%/status}; echo -n "${con#*/card?-}: "; cat $p; done )or nomodeset to the boot loader cmdline
if /var/log/Xorg.0.log exists, take a look at the available resolutions in "supported established timings" and in "modelines" and change video= , if desired, to some other value, suggest common to both lists.
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txykumat
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This worked on Fedora, and Funtoo, but it does not work on Gentoo install. I have no clue why.
| DONAHUE wrote: | presuming you are using nouveau or radeon or intel video driver and pirating an old wiki: | Quote: | Generally, a properly configured kernel is all that you need for KMS. It should read the EDID information, and use the highest available resolution.
Forcing a Resolution
If you get a black screen, an incorrect resolution or want to specify the resolution to use, you can force a resolution on the kernel command-line. This can be useful if KMS auto detection fails with rare/incorrect EDID from the monitor.
When using a driver utilizing Kernel Mode Setting, you do not specify any driver name in the video= parameter. For example, setting the screen resolution to 1280x1024, 24bps at 75Hz would be just:
video=1280x1024-24@75
If it doesn't seem to have any effect, you may need to specify the output interface explictly:
video=VGA-1:1280x1024-24@75
You can read the commit message of this feature for further details.
Disabling Modesetting
If you want to disable KMS you will need to pass nomodeset to the kernel. Example:
File: /boot/grub/grub.conf
title Linux - No Framebuffer
root (0,0)
kernel /example-kernel-2.6.29 root=/dev/root nomodeset |
I would add video=1024x768-24@60 (you may need to specify connection - video=hdmi-1: 1024x768@60Hz
To define connections, run: for p in /sys/class/drm/*/status; do con=${p%/status}; echo -n "${con#*/card?-}: "; cat $p; done )or nomodeset to the boot loader cmdline
if /var/log/Xorg.0.log exists, take a look at the available resolutions in "supported established timings" and in "modelines" and change video= , if desired, to some other value, suggest common to both lists. |
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DONAHUE
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did you try both nomodeset and setting video= and neither improved the situation?
if you wish some extra eyes; wgetpaste your .config file, the output of lspci -k, and grub.cfg/grub.conf/kernel cmdline/whatever else the bootloader may be
is an initramfs used for fedora? funtoo? gentoo?
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txykumat
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| DONAHUE wrote: | did you try both nomodeset and setting video= and neither improved the situation?
if you wish some extra eyes; wgetpaste your .config file, the output of lspci -k, and grub.cfg/grub.conf/kernel cmdline/whatever else the bootloader may be
is an initramfs used for fedora? funtoo? gentoo? |
I kind of got tired of 4k business so I returned the laptop to microsoftstore for $1299. Thank you very much for the offer of help. Greatly appreciated.
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I tried both nomodeset and video=1920x1080-24@60 but did not have any effect. Weird thing is it works in Funtoo and all other distro. |
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