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adrianpowell

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Registered: 2025-01-22

Posts: 2

Thinkpad X1 Carbon wont allow for resolution change

Good evening, I am trying to change DPI & Scaling but any attempted changes have no effect. My laptop runs off of an integrated gpu.
GPU: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 (Iris Xe Graphics) (rev 0c)

attempting to change xrandr in my xinitrc file has no effect

attempting the change directly through the terminal creates a blackscreen and i can only exit via TTY
xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 1.25x1.25

my current xrandr output is this
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … drinfo.txt

my current .xinitrc
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … initrc.txt

my active X servers
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … ervers.txt

my current X log output (cp from /var/log/)
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … Xorg.0.log

my current X log output but only the EE issues (all of them)
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … org.ee.txt

my current X log output but only the II ones i think might be relevant
https://github.com/powelladrian/logfile … org.ii.txt

I have tried to provide as much information as possible. If anyone has ran into this issue before please let me know or if anyone has the time to provide any insight that would be great.

Thank you

Last edited by adrianpowell (2025-01-23 00:05:20)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,182

Re: Thinkpad X1 Carbon wont allow for resolution change

What's your actual gpu? You'll want to get rid of xf86-video-intel and replace mesa-amber with mesa.

Also what you actually want is not changing the resolution, but changing the DPI/Scaling to make elements bigger while sticking to the correct resolution:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#D … ze_and_DPI  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

Also your .xinitrc is incomplete, you'll need a couple includes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xinitrc (note the note boxes) and exec replaces the interpreting shell with the "exec'd" process, dmenu will never run in that constellation.

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-22 23:37:13)

adrianpowell

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Registered: 2025-01-22

Posts: 2

Re: Thinkpad X1 Carbon wont allow for resolution change

Thank you for your help. I am currently working on some of the issues you noted and I will reach out if I dont make any progress for a while.

my gpu is Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 (Iris Xe Graphics) (rev 0c)

Thank you for taking the time to help.