Boot resolution

[azidhaka]

Hi everyone,

On my Mint 20.1 Cinnamon system I upgraded my monitors from 1080 to 1440 and now the startup console messages and the Plymouth splash screen texts look garbled, as if their resolution remained at 1080. I am using the proprietary Nvidia driver.

What is the proper way to fix this?

[Larry78723]

Please post an inxi -Fxxxzr report. This will give us a concise overview of your hardware and on how Mint sees it.

Here is how to generate the report and post it:
Open a terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-t). Make it fullscreen to avoid unneeded linebreaks or chopped lines. Execute the command

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 inxi -Fxxxzr 

exactly as it has been typed here.

Mark the complete text output which the command will display with your mouse.
Press the keyboard shortcut <Shift><Ctrl>C to copy the marked text into the clipboard.
Enclose the results between the code markers by selecting </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply then paste <Ctrl>V them in your reply between the code markers [code]Results [/code].

The results will help us to help you.
Larry

[azidhaka]

Thank you, Larry. Here's the report:

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System:    Kernel: 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 
           dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z800 Workstation v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 
           serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 0AECh v: D serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 786G5 v03.61 date: 03/05/2018 
CPU:       Topology: 2x 6-Core model: Intel Xeon X5680 bits: 64 type: MT MCP SMP arch: Nehalem rev: 2 L1 cache: 768 KiB 
           L2 cache: 24.0 MiB L3 cache: 24.0 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 159833 
           Speed: 1597 MHz min/max: 1596/3326 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1599 2: 1599 3: 1602 4: 1604 5: 1599 
           6: 1599 7: 1599 8: 1598 9: 1598 10: 1598 11: 1783 12: 1632 13: 1599 14: 1782 15: 1621 16: 1809 17: 1685 18: 1599 
           19: 1598 20: 1598 21: 1664 22: 1604 23: 1668 24: 1608 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 690] driver: nvidia v: 460.80 bus ID: 11:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1188 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 690] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 460.80 bus ID: 12:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:1188 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 690/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.80 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:3a3e 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 11:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0a 
           Device-3: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 12:00.1 
           chip ID: 10de:0e0a 
           Device-4: Logitech Webcam C170 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 2-2:2 chip ID: 046d:082b 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-74-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: tg3 
           v: 3.137 port: b0c0 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:1684 
           IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: tg3 
           v: 3.137 port: b0c0 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:1684 
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-3: virbr0-nic state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-4: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-5: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.94 TiB used: 350.53 GiB (17.7%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SX910 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 7a temp: 29 C 
           scheme: MBR 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZRX-00D8PB0 size: 1.82 TiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
           rev: 0A80 temp: 28 C scheme: MBR 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: b0c0 bus ID: 00:1f.2 chip ID: 8086.2822 
           rev: N/A 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 114.70 GiB used: 40.17 GiB (35.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
           ID-2: /boot size: 703.5 MiB used: 209.6 MiB (29.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 976.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: 34.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1823 fan-2: 1687 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 1283 gpu: nvidia fan: 38% 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/afelinczak-ppa-focal.list 
           1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/afelinczak/ppa/ubuntu focal main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/anydesk-stable.list 
           1: deb http://deb.anydesk.com/ all main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/asbru-cm-release.list 
           1: deb https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/asbru-cm/release/deb/linuxmint ulyana main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
           1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
           2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
           3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
           6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
Info:      Processes: 509 Uptime: 22h 57m Memory: 43.11 GiB used: 3.71 GiB (8.6%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 8/9 Shell: bash (sudo) v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[SMG]

On my Mint 20.1 Cinnamon system I upgraded my monitors from 1080 to 1440

Does this mean you bought new monitors or you made a change to existing monitors?

[azidhaka]

I bought new monitors.

[SMG]

Unless you customized something in grub or Mint before you switched to the new monitors, I am not aware of a reason Mint would "retain" anything from your prior monitors.

It is possible to take a Mint hard drive from one computer (presuming proprietary drivers were not added) and switch it to another computer and have it work. When the system boots, there is a fresh start. The system checks to see what is attached and loads the appropriate drivers.

The graphics data you posted indicates Mint is seeing the desired resolution.
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 2560x1440~60Hz

Is the screen resolution readable when you boot into BIOS?