Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > Out of the blue today, my usual screen resolution (1920x1200) became > unavailable. I booted to the console and called startx, which brings up > fvwm. But my default base window went way off-screen, and the type was huge. > xrandr said I was at 1024x768 and did not list the 1920x1200 option at all. > (It usually does.) I was able to define and call that option in my base > window with: > > xrandr --newmode "1920x1200_60.00" 193.25 1920 2056 2256 2592 1200 1203 > 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync > xrandr --addmode VGA-1 1920x1200_60.00 > xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1920x1200_60.00 > > This gave me my usual window and font size, but there are some side issues > (e.g. where icons go when I minimize them). > > In any case, I think the problem is upstream of X windows. I boot to a > console, and the font there was much bigger than usual. Where is that > controlled? Any idea how to get this back to normal? The monitor is set to > an aspect ratio of 16:1. Resetting the monitor and rebooting did not fix > the problem.
I'm going to guess that this is a change in one or both of: - GPU firmware - X11 GPU driver Let's get the output from: cat /etc/debian_version to find out what you're running lspci | grep VGA to find out what your graphics hardware is dpkg --get-selections | grep firmware to find out what firmware is installed dpkg --get-selections | grep xserver-xorg-video-* to find out whether the right video driver is installed and finally, grep Driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep II or if that file is missing, grep Driver ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | grep II to find out what driver is actually being used -dsr-