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davermont

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Registered: 2014-09-07

Posts: 21

Terminal resolution

I have a high resolution monitor (2560x1600) and I've noticed that when I boot into Arch my resolution is not native. I do not have a desktop environment installed at the moment. When I installed using the latest media, however, it was definitely using the monitor's native resolution so I know it can be done. I've installed the appropriate Nvidia driver and run nvidia-xconfig, but it has not fixed the problem. I assume X11 is responsible for display after booting from GRUB, which, from what I've read is itself limited in the resolutions it can display. I have had KDE installed previously and it was using the correct resolution. I'm just not sure what to try next. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
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Last edited by davermont (2015-02-04 03:00:33)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Terminal resolution

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Terminal resolution

Alternatively, you can use nouveau instead of nvidia.
Once you're using X and not the tty, nvidia should give you plenty options. What's the output of 'xrandr'?

leafbug

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Registered: 2015-02-04

Posts: 2

Re: Terminal resolution

You can try xrandr

xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 2560x1600

  to adjust your resolution and also put it in your .xinitrc