Hi Torreydale;
You asked: "I know you're on version 2.4. You wouldn't happen to have installed Systemback, would you? If so, do you have a restore point you can revert to?"
My reply: No I haven't installed systemback because as you now know i'm on version 2.4.
You asked: "What video card do you have? Can you upload the result to running the following in a terminal?: inxi -F"
My reply:
Code:
:~$ inxi -F
System: Host: Modded Chromebox-Panther Kernel: 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine: Mobo: Google model: Panther version: 1.0 Bios: coreboot version: MattDevo date: 06/17/2015
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-4010U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1701.00 MHz 2: 1701.00 MHz 3: 1701.00 MHz 4: 1701.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org: 1.15.1 driver: fbdev Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 256 bits) GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-c95d5c5 2016-02-24 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
Audio: Card-1: Intel Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: k3.13.0-77-generic
Card-2: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Network: Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 54:27:1e:b2:b8:86
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: c4:54:44:69:4f:4a
Drives: HDD Total Size: 16.0GB (49.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SSD_U110 size: 16.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 12G used: 7.4G (67%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 186 Uptime: 30 min Memory: 1169.9/3894.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.17
You asked: "If you haven't installed Systemback, have you tried booting to a Linux Lite Live CD (version 2.4 and up) to see what resolution options you get?"
My reply: Yes I tried the live usb and got all the available resolutions for my Samsung 4k UHDTV, from 720 x 400 to 4096 x 2160. The best resolution for my eyes as far as text and icons are concerned is 1920 x 1080 @ 60.00Hz. Go to the display settings menu in your installed Linux Lite on your machine and you'll see all of the available resolutions for your monitor. In installed Linux Lite I don't have resolutions 720 x 400 to 4096 x 2160 anymore and as seen by the terminal output above, the max I'm getting is 3840 x 2160@ 0.0 above. That resolution is incorrect because in the LL 2.4 live usb the same resolution reads 3840 x
[email protected] whose refresh rate I can increase to 30Hz.
As far as the suggestion in this thread to go to Settings>Appearance>Fonts, I did that I increased the custom dpi font size from 96 to 157 and that made the fonts and icons bigger but that still didn't solve my problem. If I wanted to play 4k content on my TV I wouldn't be able to see it in 4096 x 2160 resolution because the max I get in installed LL 2.4 is 3040 x 2160@ 0.0Hz.
You asked: "How much trouble at this point would it be to reinstall LL version 2.4 or above, get things running the way you want again, and then create a restore point using Systemback?
My reply: That wouldn't be too much of a hassle but I'd rather try and solve my problem the more challenging way. I did a little further investigating torreydale and i discovered that many tv models when connected to a linux machine produce bad EDID data and so need custom mode lines. These modelines can be obtained by a program known as xrandr, then they're registered, then tested out and later registered in the Xorg.conf file. Now as you may or may not know the Xorg.conf file doesn't exist in modern Ubuntu based distros such as this one.
The Xorg.conf file is where all of the display tv edid data is supposed to be stored, however it's not in LL 2.4 nor do I think is in LL 2.6 nor LL 2.8 nor will it ever be in LL 3.0. The reason for that is because it doesn't need one however, the xorg.conf file should have been included in this distro since LL version 1.0.4 and revised over time by the developers because that would have perhaps prevented the resolution problem that I'm having in the first place.
