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Change Resolution On Wayland Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome Linux

This document provides steps to change the screen resolution on an Ubuntu Gnome Wayland PC. It involves installing software, downloading an EDID master zip file, using the cvt command to generate a modeline for the desired resolution, converting the modeline to an EDID file, copying the file to the firmware folder and editing grub to load the custom EDID file on startup. Rebooting should then display the new resolution.

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Change Resolution On Wayland Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome Linux

This document provides steps to change the screen resolution on an Ubuntu Gnome Wayland PC. It involves installing software, downloading an EDID master zip file, using the cvt command to generate a modeline for the desired resolution, converting the modeline to an EDID file, copying the file to the firmware folder and editing grub to load the custom EDID file on startup. Rebooting should then display the new resolution.

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CHANGE RESOLUTION ON WAYLAND NOV 2017

Tested on Ubuntu Gnome Wayland PC. Other resolutions may be tried using this example.

STEP-1

To change Resolution on Wayland, install following softwares

> sudo apt install zsh edid-decode automake dos2unix

> sudo apt-get install read-edid

STEP-2

Download EDID master zip with following command, unzip & login to it

> wget https://github.com/akatrevorjay/edid-generator/archive/master.zip

> unzip master.zip

> cd edid-generator-master/

STEP-3

Open another bash window and run following command to get your desired resolution configuration, for
example we need 1680x1050 resolution. Run following command :

> cvt 1680 1050

YOU WILL GET FOLLOWING OUTPUT

# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

COPY LINE STARTING WIHT Modeline & add '' to this line for example

'Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync'

NOW ADD ( ./modeline2edid - <<< ) to this line for example

./modeline2edid - <<< 'Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089
-hsync +vsync'

STEP 4 (On first Bash window)


Run Command

> ./modeline2edid - <<< 'Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059
1089 -hsync +vsync'

> make #output not posted

Last command will generate 1680x1050.bin file in edid-generator-master folder

STEP 5

Create edid folder with following command in firmaware

> sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/edid

Copy the file:

> sudo cp 1680x1050.bin /lib/firmware/edid

STEP 6

Edit grub to edit linux command to load this file in kms:

> sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Edit line, save & exit:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1680x1050.bin quiet"

Now run command

> sudo update-grub

Reboot and test, if successfull enjoy new resolution on your Ubuntu Gnome Wayland PC.

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