[17:45] <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] <Hemmel> Has anyone seen this issue before?
[17:53] <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?
[18:01] <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.
[18:33] <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.
[18:34] <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!
[18:35] <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.
[18:36] <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
[18:37] <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
[18:38] <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
[18:39] <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.
[18:40] <Hemmel> IIRC I messed about with that... That's what prompted me initially to re-install completely because the display was getting crazy unusable
[18:41] <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
[18:42] <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
[18:43] <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
[18:44] <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
[18:45] <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
[18:46] <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
[18:47] <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 ;-)
[23:15] <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?