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hwalker

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Registered: 2023-10-03

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After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

Hi there! I tried out Arch a while back and it was great, but one major issue forced me to switch to Mint for the time being.
After installing Steam (and selecting the drivers for which it depends on) then giving my computer a restart my screen was stuck at 640x480. KDE says:

‘640x480’ (4:3)’ is the only resolution supported by this display.

Using unsupported resolutions was possible in the Plasma Wayland session, but they were never guaranteed to work and are not available in this Plasma X11 session.

I would try the solution that best matches my problem (in NVIDIA/Troubleshooting section 3.3) but it doesn't look like it quite matches my hardware (it's for the GT 100M series but I have a GT 10 series card), would this still work for me? I raise this concern only because I haven't really messed with X settings beyond the System Settings interface.

Thanks

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 71,660

Re: After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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hwalker

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Registered: 2023-10-03

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Re: After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

Sorry about the wait. Heres my xorg logs.

[    25.326] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/log/Xorg.pid-451.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
[    25.434] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Oct  3 18:08:57 2023
[    25.724] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration

Nothing here. As this is for the most part a fresh Arch install I dont have a xorg.conf file yet.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

Why pick 3 lines out and only give us that?

aatiis

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Registered: 2013-01-05

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Re: After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

For the record, I got the same error (stuck at 640x480@60), and I'm not running X, I'm on Wayland. I packaged the NVIDIA proprietary drivers into the Universal Kernel Image to early load them, but that shouldn't matter I guess. I have the drivers loaded properly, yet the output (HDMI in this case) is not recognised. On another Arch linux, running on the same machine, I get 4k resolution with the same drivers (but I'm running X11 there). Maybe I'm just new to Wayland and not know how to properly configure it, but sure would be nice to know why the output is not recognised, or how to debug this further.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: After installing NVIDIA drivers my display is stuck at 680x480

Did you enable https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting ?
Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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