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wonn

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Registered: 2024-06-03

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Struggling with rEFInd / initial boot TTY resolution with Nvidia

As I understand it, it's possible to control the screen resolution both within the rEFInd boot manager and before logging into an X session, potentially by the same method. When I first installed Arch my initial boot TTY was at the correct resolution (though rEFInd wasn't), but as expected switching to proprietary Nvidia drivers broke this; however, the solution given in the wiki of adding 'use_graphics_for +,linux' in my refind.conf seems to have had absolutely no effect. Is there something else I might need to do here, or something that might be interfering somehow? I don't even yet really know how to diagnose this issue - help would be appreciated! What I have is certainly usable, but good heavens does it look awful.

Edit - interestingly, it's also ignoring my attempt to use a different theme. Maybe the issue is that it's just ignoring my refind.conf for some reason?

Last edited by wonn (2024-06-08 16:09:12)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Struggling with rEFInd / initial boot TTY resolution with Nvidia

The refind resolution is generally tied to what your UEFI implements and not related to the rest of the system nor your actual graphics card. For any chance of this looking good, you must ensure that CSM is disabled in your UEFI.

The TTY is a different can of worms, if you want that to look good you need to enable the KMS and fbdev parameters. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting -- the fbdev parameter is quite new and somewhat potentially wonky, but a bunch of fixes for that in the newest driver that's currently in [testing]