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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