Low resolution/no options in Ubuntu
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I have a pi4 that has been running flawlessly but wanted to play steam and ps2 games so I just got an i5 4th gen Lenovo m93p. Everything was working great over vga and then I installed 1650 low profile graphics card. The Nvidia drivers screwed up Ubuntu totally but I got that figured out. Steam and pcsx2 are running great but now Emulationstation only has one output resolution and it is very low. If i try to change the resolution (after pressing a button while loading a rom) it just reloads the screen I was just on... I know there is a config file somewhere I should probably edit but I can’t locate it in the system.
Anyone know where that file is or just what I should do?!
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Did you disable the integrated GPU after installing the Nvidia card ?
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@mitu nope! How do I do that?
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@Shadycommaslim It's usually done from the BIOS, if possible.
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@mitu awesome! I’ll give it a try
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@mitu alrighty I selected pcie graphics instead auto in the bios but it didn’t fix anything unfortunately
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@Shadycommaslim What resolutions show as being supported on your GPU ? What is your current desktop resolution ?
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@mitu in Ubuntu setting it has 6 options ranging from 800x600 to 1920x1080. I’m set on the 1920x1080
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Then EmulationStation must be running at 1920x1080 - isn't that ok ? Do you think it runs in another resolution ?
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@mitu ah yes sorry perhaps I see how I was unclear in my problem description. EmulationStation is in 1080 but I guess retroarch is stuck super low. When you load any game you press a button to change which emulator/settings and when you try and change resolution here it reloads the current screen instead of going to the next one where I used to be able to change resolution
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I see, so the listing of available video modes in the Runcommand launch menu doesn't work. This is something that's been recently added, so it didn't get a lot of usage.
Can you run the following command and then post the output on pastebin.com ?xrandr --verbose -
@mitu no problem!
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@mitu worth noting it worked fine before installing video card... now if I ever end up in the login screen it still cause Ubuntu to freeze or get stuck in a loop. I removed “splash” from the grub to fix this problem initially. When I’m at the screen we’re talking about it’s a purple background instead of my desktop background which seems weird.
Also... just noticed when the runcommand screen reloads it says this in the corner:
sed: -e Expression #1, char 51: unterminated ‘s’ command
(That’s for the +rom version. For default video mode it’s the same except char 29)
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@Shadycommaslim said in Low resolution/no options in Ubuntu:
When I’m at the screen we’re talking about it’s a purple background instead of my desktop background which seems weird.
It's not weird, it's the default gnome-terminal background in Ubuntu. Since
runcommandruns in the terminal, you see this probably for the error inruncommand.Also... just noticed when the runcommand screen reloads it says this in the corner:
sed: -e Expression #1, char 51: unterminated ‘s’ command -
@mitu gotcha. Thanks for your help and patience. Rasp pi and this are my only Linux experiences so far!
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Which Ubuntu version are you using ?
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@mitu 20.04 lts
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I think I may have found the culprit, but I'll tag @psyke83 since the new X11 runcommand video mode selection is his expertise.
I think the matching for thexrandrXID mode is not taking into account it's a hexcode, for the xrandr output in this topic, no video mode is detected. Seems to work with this change. -
Hmm I made those changes and still getting the same problem, unfortunately.
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@Shadycommaslim said in Low resolution/no options in Ubuntu:
Hmm I made those changes and still getting the same problem, unfortunately.
Where exactly did you add the changes ?
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