[ale] Screen resolution in X versus console

[Alex Carver]

On 10/15/2013 02:31, JD wrote:
> On 10/14/2013 09:49 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> I'm having some trouble with one system I just installed.  The display
>> is a widescreen 1920x1200 and the system has an Nvidia GeForce 5200
>> installed.  The nvidia drivers from the Debian repository are installed
>> (nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx).
>>
>> The console framebuffer seems to only want to work at 1024x768 but X
>> starts up (starting from the command line and having set the nvidia
>> driver in xorg.conf) and switches to 1920x1200x24 with no problems.
>> However, upon exiting X, the card is now at 1920x1200 and the display
>> complains about being out of range.
>>
>> When I configured grub to load a higher resolution (via gfx_payload) I
>> ended up with the same problem, out of range on the monitor.  I was only
>> able to get the console framebuffer to work at 1024x768.
>>
>> I know I'm missing something somewhere but I haven't been able to figure
>> out what's going on.  I'll need to double check that nouveau is properly
>> blacklisted (I think it is by the installer).
> 
> Does xrandr help?

Not sure but I'll give it a shot when I'm back at the machine.
Otherwise I may just give up and disable the frame buffer for the
console entirely.