[Solved] Force video mode
Posted: 29 Aug 2019, 07:30
I have a website that I want to use as the Kiosk homepage, but the site needs 640x480 resolution to display correctly.
I managed to get it working on my laptop by running xrandr and finding the matching video driver. Once I had that information, I could set the value in the multi boot config, and it worked very nicely.
However, we have a variety of PCs and monitors that will run in kiosk mode, and I would like to be able to set this resolution for any hardware.
I tried using a kernel boot parameter:
Unfortunately it didn't seem to have any effect.
I managed to get it working on my laptop by running xrandr and finding the matching video driver. Once I had that information, I could set the value in the multi boot config, and it worked very nicely.
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screen_settings=eDP1:640x480:59.94:normal:normal I tried using a kernel boot parameter:
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kernel_parameters=GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=640x480