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Varemenos

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Registered: 2011-09-01

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Resolutions not loaded properly

I just installed Arch on my yoga 2 pro laptop.

It has the Intel HD Graphics 4400 so according to the beginner's guide I had to install the xf86-video-intel drivers.

In the beginner's guide wiki it also says that the user doesn't need to configure xorg for it to work fine but it seems like it can't detect my screen's supported resolutions and just uses some random 4:3 resolutions plus the maxed one which is 3200x1800.

Can someone help me fix this?

Also, it seems like Gnome 3.12 can't work properly with HiDPI even though it worked just fine with Ubuntu (I guess they patched it?)

Last edited by Varemenos (2014-10-12 13:18:24)

Varemenos

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From: Greece

Registered: 2011-09-01

Posts: 24

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Re: Resolutions not loaded properly

I've managed to add 1920x1080 temporary via randr but it resets on reboot.

# cvt 1920 1080
xrandr --newmode fhd 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120
xrandr --addmode eDP1 fhd

czubek

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Re: Resolutions not loaded properly

I have an Acer Veriton N281G desktop feeding an Acer AL1917W wide screen monitor. I tried for days to create an edid file for my monitor but failed. I read somewhere the resolution could be forced on the kernel parameter line which I did in my syslinux.cfg.

# Config file for Syslinux -
# /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
#
# Comboot modules:
#   * menu.c32 - provides a text menu
#   * vesamenu.c32 - provides a graphical menu
#   * chain.c32 - chainload MBRs, partition boot sectors, Windows bootloaders
#   * hdt.c32 - hardware detection tool
#   * reboot.c32 - reboots the system
#
# To Use: Copy the respective files from /usr/lib/syslinux to /boot/syslinux.
# If /usr and /boot are on the same file system, symlink the files instead
# of copying them.
#
# If you do not use a menu, a 'boot:' prompt will be shown and the system
# will boot automatically after 5 seconds.
#
# Please review the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux
# The wiki provides further configuration examples

DEFAULT arch-ck
PROMPT 0        # Set to 1 if you always want to display the boot: prompt 
TIMEOUT 50
# You can create syslinux keymaps with the keytab-lilo tool
#KBDMAP de.ktl

# Menu Configuration
# Either menu.c32 or vesamenu32.c32 must be copied to /boot/syslinux 
UI menu.c32
#UI vesamenu.c32

# Refer to http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu
MENU TITLE Arch Linux
#MENU BACKGROUND splash.png
MENU COLOR border       30;44   #40ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR title        1;36;44 #9033ccff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR sel          7;37;40 #e0ffffff #20ffffff all
MENU COLOR unsel        37;44   #50ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR help         37;40   #c0ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout_msg  37;40   #80ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR timeout      1;37;40 #c0ffffff #00000000 std
MENU COLOR msg07        37;40   #90ffffff #a0000000 std
MENU COLOR tabmsg       31;40   #30ffffff #00000000 std

# boot sections follow
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

LABEL arch-ck
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux-ck
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-ck
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw elevator=bfq video=LVDS-1:d video=VGA-1:1440x900@75
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-ck.img

LABEL archfallback-ck
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux-ck Fallback
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-ck
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-ck-fallback.img

LABEL windows
        MENU LABEL Windows
        COM32 chain.c32
        APPEND hd0 1

LABEL arch-grsec
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux-grsec
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-grsec
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw video=LVDS-1:d video=VGA-1:1440x900@75
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-grsec.img

LABEL archfallback-grsec
    MENU LABEL Arch Linux-grsec Fallback
    LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-grsec
    APPEND root=/dev/sda3 rw
    INITRD ../initramfs-linux-grsec-fallback.img

LABEL hdt
        MENU LABEL HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
        COM32 hdt.c32

LABEL reboot
        MENU LABEL Reboot
        COM32 reboot.c32

LABEL poweroff
        MENU LABEL Poweroff
        COM32 poweroff.c32

Prior to this I followed the xrandr wiki to add a preferred resolution to the xorg list. I'm not sure if this had any bearing on the outcome.