| === oer_ is now known as oerheks | ||
| Hemmel | Hello there. I have just finished installing Ubuntu Studio 18.04 and I'm already having an issue. The PC is plugged on a 55" TV through HDMI, so Ubuntu automatically puts the resolution at 3840×2160. When I change it to either 1920×1080, 2560×1440, it goes back to login screen and if I log back in, the screen flashes once and goes back to login screen again. The only way out I found is to re-install the OS. | 17:45 |
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| Hemmel | Has anyone seen this issue before? | 17:45 |
| OvenWerks | wow, I wish I had such a big screen :) have you been able to set the tv resolution lower than native before in any linux? | 17:53 |
| OvenWerks | xorg expects the display to be able to deal with whatever resolution you send it. I would guess the TV should tell the computer what resolutions it can deal with and that is what the display settings should show. | 18:01 |
| Hemmel | Wow... got an ISP outage right as I replying... This is my first time using Linux since like 2002 or something. I ran it on a computer monitor. But I figured that with a nice nVidia card, I could plug this new PC on my TV and have a great big screen with all the software needed for music production. | 18:33 |
| OvenWerks | Is there any reason not to use the native resolution? | 18:34 |
| Hemmel | I also just learned about xorg, which I am unfamiliar with. I thought all Linux OS were on Gnome or KFE (or something). | 18:34 |
| Hemmel | Well, 3840×2160 is great, but the issue is text. It is so small! | 18:34 |
| OvenWerks | (KDE) both gnome and kde (and xfce which Studio runs on) have xorg under the hood. | 18:35 |
| Hemmel | I already tried changing the text size but the windows stayed the same size and just ended up masking half the text | 18:35 |
| Hemmel | oooooh ok | 18:35 |
| Hemmel | so Ubuntu Studio uses xcfe is that it? | 18:35 |
| Hemmel | errr xfce | 18:35 |
| OvenWerks | yes. | 18:35 |
| OvenWerks | on top of xorg. | 18:36 |
| OvenWerks | hdpi has been a problem in some cases. | 18:36 |
| OvenWerks | I am not sure how to deal with that | 18:36 |
| Hemmel | What I don't understand is why putting a valid resolution like 1920×1080 shoves me back to login screen | 18:37 |
| Hemmel | With no resolution whatsoever, might I add | 18:37 |
| Hemmel | oops *no resolution changes whatsoever | 18:37 |
| OvenWerks | if xorg tries to switch the resolution to something it can't do it could crash and the underlaying display manager takes over at the login | 18:38 |
| OvenWerks | in settings there is one called Appearance | 18:39 |
| OvenWerks | There is a tab called fonts that has a custom DPI setting. I am wondering if that could be of some help. | 18:39 |
| Hemmel | IIRC I messed about with that... That's what prompted me initially to re-install completely because the display was getting crazy unusable | 18:40 |
| OvenWerks | Also I would ask on #xubuntu (which also runs on xfce) as there are some of the xfce devs there sometimes. | 18:41 |
| Hemmel | Oh ok thanks. | 18:41 |
| OvenWerks | the person to ask here is eylul | 18:41 |
| OvenWerks | if they are online | 18:41 |
| Hemmel | What I'll do tonight is try to plug in a "normal" computer monitor on the PC and see what happens | 18:42 |
| OvenWerks | not sure what hours that would be though | 18:42 |
| Hemmel | I just hope I won't get stuck on the login loop again | 18:42 |
| eylul | I know there is some form of scaling on XFCE. | 18:42 |
| Hemmel | Oh hello eylul | 18:42 |
| eylul | that helps, but one of the reasons I did swap to KDE initially was better support of HiDPI. | 18:42 |
| eylul | hi | 18:42 |
| eylul | I am not here for very long because you caught me right before starting something | 18:43 |
| Hemmel | That's fine. | 18:43 |
| * OvenWerks is off to the bank with his Yf... | 18:43 | |
| eylul | :) | 18:43 |
| Hemmel | What times are you usually online?& | 18:43 |
| eylul | I will be on later tonight, or better, if you email the mailing list | 18:43 |
| eylul | I can reply later tonight after trying to look into it | 18:43 |
| eylul | but one of the primary reasons why I swapped to KDE specifically was because XFCE some stuff was hard to fix. | 18:44 |
| eylul | if you can email with a screenshot, and which parts are not scaled. but tldr. | 18:44 |
| Hemmel | Emmm where's the mailing list? I missed that | 18:44 |
| eylul | https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users | 18:45 |
| eylul | :) | 18:45 |
| Hemmel | gah just found it on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio | 18:45 |
| eylul | but mostly on XFCE, there is something on window settings that allows you to scale. | 18:45 |
| eylul | if you push that to something like 1.5 | 18:45 |
| eylul | that is the main thing | 18:45 |
| eylul | after that you can change the font sizes on toolbar etc | 18:45 |
| eylul | SOME software won't be fixed through | 18:45 |
| eylul | sorry for incomplete answer | 18:46 |
| Hemmel | I'll try to find how to switch to KDE | 18:46 |
| Hemmel | sounds easier | 18:46 |
| eylul | there is a KDE variant of ubuntustudio in the works btw | 18:46 |
| eylul | KDE or Plasma | 18:46 |
| Hemmel | oh it's in the works | 18:46 |
| eylul | Plasma is the correct name as I keep forgetting | 18:46 |
| eylul | Kubuntu-desktop will install that | 18:46 |
| eylul | ...and I need to run | 18:46 |
| Hemmel | thanks a whole bunch, wylul | 18:46 |
| Hemmel | errr eylul sorry | 18:46 |
| eylul | np at all.. | 18:47 |
| eylul | ;) | 18:47 |
| eylul | sorry for the slightly hurried answer | 18:47 |
| eylul | :) | 18:47 |
| eylul | but try the scaling first | 18:47 |
| eylul | and see if this fixes things | 18:47 |
| Hemmel | I will | 18:47 |
| eylul | and toolbar, it might be enough | 18:47 |
| Hemmel | don't worry about it, I'm glad to have had an answer, I didn't think anyone was going to answer ;-) | 18:47 |
| strixdio | I'm trying to instsall UbuntuStudio to iscsi. I got it to pxe boot into the live environment, install open-iscsi, import the target, install to the target, but then when I try to boot from iscsi it doesn't do anything. Any thoughts? | 23:15 |
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