Well.. I ended up "solving" the problem by installing and Xserver, and
making an xinitrc script that pauses for 5 seconds, changes the res with
xrandr, then continues.. (For some reason xrandr needs that several-second
pause before it's called, or it too throws a "can't find mode" error)

On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 at 12:40 Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a couple of Intel NUCs (dual core celeron CPUs, Intel chipsets
> including video (i915 kernel module)) that I'm trying to use for a project.
>
> To simplify matters I was going to use the framebuffer device for video
> output -- but the HDMI defaults to 1920x1080 and I'd really like to change
> the resolution to match the projector's native resolution, which is
> 1024x768.
>
> I've tried using fbset, as in:
> $ fbset -geometry 1024 768 1024 768 32
> but rather than change the HDMI output, it just makes the console occupy a
> smaller part of the screen. How useless!
>
> I tried using fbset like this too:
> $ fbset 1024x768-32
> (where that mode is listed in /etc/fb.modes)
> but it just threw some errors back.
>
> Am I doing it wrong? Or is it possible that the framebuffer device for
> this video device just doesn't let you change the resolution?
>
> I guess it's not a disaster if I install a minimal X setup, but first..
> any suggestions for fbset?
>
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