Kalpa: hidpi console text too small
I installed Kalpa yesterday and encountered a few small issues. On Tumbleweed (and other distributions) I can set "video=..." as kernel parameter during installation (or afterwards) to change the console screen resolution for my laptops with hidpi screens. To be specific, I and my wife both have Dell XPS 13's. With Kalpa on my laptop, this did not work. The console is still 3840x2400. /proc/cmdline shows the video parameter I set (video=1920x1080@60). This is the correct setting and Tumbleweed, Debian, and Fedora have always honored that parameter. I will add that, for a brief (maybe 2-3 seconds) I can see two lines of output at the correct resoultion, but the screen quickly changes resolution. My hunch is that this is due to the hand-off between grub and vconsole. I always use my onboard TPM2 for FDE. Without that, a typical user would have no idea when/where to enter their password. When the tiny text stopped scrolling on the first boot, I did know why. Again, a typical user (like my wife) probably would not. Any ideas? -- Tony Walker <tony.walker.iu@gmail.com> PGP Key @ https://tonywalker1.github.io/pgp 9F46 D66D FF6C 182D A5AC 11E1 8559 98D1 7543 319C
Tony Walker composed on 2024-03-23 08:40 (UTC-0400):
Any ideas?
3840x2400 and 1920x1200 are 16:10 ratios. 3840x2160 and 1920x1080 are 16:9 ratios. Some displays are reluctant to use a non-native resolution that is not a matching ratio. 1920x1080 on a 16:10 display is hard to classify as "correct", since it is expected to produce distorted perspectives. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 3/23/24 10:28, Felix Miata wrote:
Thank you, Felix. Sorry, I was loose on my vocabulary use. I meant desired. I tried 1920x1200 and 1280x800 and verified that the desired resolution appears in in /proc/cmdline. Unfortunately, neither worked and the console resolutions remained at 3840x2400 (maximum). 1920x1080, 1920x1200, and 1280x800 are all valid resolutions for the GPU (Intel Iris Plus G7 rev 07). Good point and certainly worth a try. As I pointed out above, setting video=... works on Tumbleweed, Debian, and Fedora on this laptop. It just doesn't work with Kalpa. Honestly, I am not sure why Kalpa would be different. Perhaps, I should punt and go back to Tumbleweed. Any other ideas? -- Tony Walker <tony.walker.iu@gmail.com> PGP Key @ https://tonywalker1.github.io/pgp 9F46 D66D FF6C 182D A5AC 11E1 8559 98D1 7543 319C
Tony Walker composed on 2024-03-23 08:40 (UTC-0400):
Any ideas?
3840x2400 and 1920x1200 are 16:10 ratios. 3840x2160 and 1920x1080 are 16:9 ratios. Some displays are reluctant to use a non-native resolution that is not a matching ratio. 1920x1080 on a 16:10 display is hard to classify as "correct", since it is expected to produce distorted perspectives. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 3/23/24 10:28, Felix Miata wrote:
Thank you, Felix. Sorry, I was loose on my vocabulary use. I meant desired. I tried 1920x1200 and 1280x800 and verified that the desired resolution appears in in /proc/cmdline. Unfortunately, neither worked and the console resolutions remained at 3840x2400 (maximum). 1920x1080, 1920x1200, and 1280x800 are all valid resolutions for the GPU (Intel Iris Plus G7 rev 07). Good point and certainly worth a try. As I pointed out above, setting video=... works on Tumbleweed, Debian, and Fedora on this laptop. It just doesn't work with Kalpa. Honestly, I am not sure why Kalpa would be different. Perhaps, I should punt and go back to Tumbleweed. Any other ideas? -- Tony Walker <tony.walker.iu@gmail.com> PGP Key @ https://tonywalker1.github.io/pgp 9F46 D66D FF6C 182D A5AC 11E1 8559 98D1 7543 319C
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