Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:58:55AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Andy Smith composed on 2025-07-28 15:35 (UTC): > > > The video= kernel command line looks promising and I will try this when > > I've finished using my laptop for work today :) > > > It would help though if anyoen were able to confirm that I'm on the > > right track with that. > > You are. I've been using it ever since KMS went mainstream going on two > decades > ago, using video=1440x900 by default as my goto for 1680x1050 and higher > native > resolution displays.
I found a bit of time to tinker yesterday but unfortunately no matter what I put with video= always led to no difference and a log line saying: (video=1600x1200@119.82e) kernel: [ 2.910222] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: "1600x1200": 119 340129 1600 1736 1912 2224 1200 1201 1204 1285 0x20 0x6 (video=1600x1200) kernel: [ 2.973614] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: "1600x1200": 60 160961 1600 1704 1880 2160 1200 1201 1204 1242 0x20 0x6 What I observe during boot is: 1. Absolutely minuscule text at grub menu, persisting up to and including point of asking for LUKS passphrase 2. After LUKS passphrase given, screens to reset either font size or resolution or both (hard to tell) into something a lot more readable. This is still the scrolling text of the boot process. 3. The GNOME greeter appears at my usual desktop resolution, which is fine. Extra vtys are at the same font/resolution as (2), which is not ideal but is bearable. I went back to the grub config. Setting: GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32,auto did provide a nice clear grub menu and that persists up until step (2) above, so that has solved my major issue of grub and LUKS passphrase dialog being unreadable. No matter what I put for GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX I did not observe any change in behaviour. So the situation now is a lot better, though I don't know how to change the resolution after step (2) above which is also to include vtys after Wayland has loaded. Does anyone know how that should be done? This is recent-ish hardware (2023) with Intel i915 graphics. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
