Bugzilla – Bug 1177602
HDMI display only allows 640x480
Last modified: 2020-10-14 05:56:17 UTC
I have an external monitor that I connect via HDMI. It has a high resolution, like 1900x1080, now I don't remember exactly. When I connect it to my new laptop with freshly installed Tumbleweed, it only allows me to select a shitty 640x480 resolution. I have used the same display on Ubuntu on an older laptop for ages, and I have never had this issue (also, never with other screens). With Ubuntu on the old laptop, regardless of whether I connected it via HDMI or VGA, it always worked fine. On the new laptop with OpenSUSE I only have HDMI, so I cannot try VGA. So now I cannot use my external high-resolution monitor. Thanks a lot, OpenSUSE! I need a workaround URGENTLY.
Sounds like the proprietary nvidia driver. What's the output of "xrandr"? Try restarting X with Ctrl-Alt-Bksp+Bksp.
It seems the reporter opened a new bug, because: > I already reported this bug, I got a reply asking for more info, > but the link to the bug no longer works, the bug report has vanished. See bug#1177618. I suppose we can close this one then?
PS: (In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #2) > See bug#1177618. The xrandr output there shows 640x480 as only available resolution, so it can't really be a bug in Plasma anyway.
I think it's best to mark this as a duplicate. It seems to be rather unlikely that we ever get a response here... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1177618 ***