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Venom

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 12

GRUB not respecting the desired resolution

I want GRUB to boot in my native laptop's resolution which would be 1366x768 pixels. That resolution switching during the booting process is annoying - it switches from 1024x768 to 1366x768 at some point. I disabled the "quiet" boot mode.
I've tried changing the grub.cfg file and setting the GRUB_GFXMODE value to 1366x768x32 after which I ran the grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg. That went fine.

But, after booting the old resolution remained. I ran vbeinfo (I have Intel integrated graphics) in GRUB's command-line and it returned a preferred resolution of 1366x768 (what I set it to I guess) and there was a star next to a 1024x768x32 entry - the resolution it is actually using, I suppose.

Can this be fixed? It isn't a huge problem, but I'd like to take care of it if it's possible.

Last edited by Venom (2015-10-01 21:39:39)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,983

Re: GRUB not respecting the desired resolution

You might want a "framebuffer."  See the GRUB parts of this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

Venom

Member

From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 12

Re: GRUB not respecting the desired resolution

You might want a "framebuffer."  See the GRUB parts of this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uvesafb

That was quick.
Thank you, I will try that method tomorrow and report back.