Can't make screen size permanent

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

You might do some research on how to make grub use your native resolution. There's lots of info out there, but some of it is quite dated as grub-pc (aka grub2) has been updated often.

[mweishaa]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

Wouldn't the X setting (or the WM setting... sorry, that distinction has never been clear to me) override what grub has set after I log in? When I say "log in" I am referring to logging into the desktop.

EDIT: It appears I don't have a grub.cfg ... and when I boot, I do get a plain-color screen with simple font. I am wondering if I should even mess with it.. because it does boot now. I'm just leery about messing with it for fear of making things worse.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

Well, you must have a grub.cfg if you're booting to grub - /boot/grub/grub.cfg. If you do the research I suggested, you should find some topics on editing /etc/default/grub and/or /etc/grub.d/00_header to achieve some results.

Since in your case x starts with the correct resolution after a restart, I thought maybe a correct grub resolution might be the easy fix in your case.

In any case, if you installed a new video card, you'll need to install the correct drivers and re-configure xorg if it has a /etc/X11/xorg.conf in place.

[mweishaa]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

I was confused at not finding one either. But the last time I even had to mess with grub was a few versions ago, so i thought maybe everything changed under the hood.

I did install the NVIDIA drivers and have an xorg.conf file created. Since I don't reboot very often, i guess it's not a big deal about my startup resolution.. it's just been one of those things.

[NoWorries]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

I must say that I am a little puzzled that you do not have a grub.cfg file. I found the following advice at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 where it says that:

''grub.cfg'' is overwritten anytime there is a update, a kernel is added/removed or the user runs `update-grub`

You may find it useful to run the command update-grub.

Also, regarding your NVIDIA drivers, did you use K>System>Additional Drivers to install the drivers?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

If you still have an xorg.conf file, look in it for:

Section Device
Driver ...

and see what driver is being loaded. Also, carefully read /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it will tell you what's happening. This log file is re-created at each X start so read it (or save a copy) after boot up before you fix the resolution and then again after a successful resolution change to see if it changes.

[mweishaa]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

I ran update-grub.. still don't have a grub.cfg file anywhere. But it boots via grub... so whatever. Has grub.cfg been depricated?

Anyway, did a shutdown and a reboot... and everything came up fine with the correct resolution. I guess I'll just keep an eye on it, and if it ever comes up in low-res, I'll save off the xorg log files and check them out.

Oh, and to answer a previous question, I am using the latest Nvidia 64-bit drivers: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21.run
I installed them using the standalone method instead of from a repository because when I enabled the swat repository, it looked like the drivers in there were pretty old (or the naming structure was different).

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

I ran update-grub.. still don't have a grub.cfg file anywhere. But it boots via grub... so whatever. Has grub.cfg been depricated?

If you have been running Kubuntu for some time, and have upgraded to new versions, then the Grub you are likely still using is Grub Legacy, not Grub 2, and that would explain why you don't have a grub.cfg - Grub Legacy doesn't use one.

[mweishaa]

Re: Can't make screen size permanent

Seems to check out.

> dpkg -l | grep grub
ii grub 0.97-29ubuntu60 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
ii grub-common 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files)