[ale] Screen resolution in X versus console

[jdp at algoloma.com (JD)]

On 10/14/2013 09:49 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with one system I just installed.  The display
> is a widescreen 1920x1200 and the system has an Nvidia GeForce 5200
> installed.  The nvidia drivers from the Debian repository are installed
> (nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx).
> 
> The console framebuffer seems to only want to work at 1024x768 but X
> starts up (starting from the command line and having set the nvidia
> driver in xorg.conf) and switches to 1920x1200x24 with no problems.
> However, upon exiting X, the card is now at 1920x1200 and the display
> complains about being out of range.
> 
> When I configured grub to load a higher resolution (via gfx_payload) I
> ended up with the same problem, out of range on the monitor.  I was only
> able to get the console framebuffer to work at 1024x768.
> 
> I know I'm missing something somewhere but I haven't been able to figure
> out what's going on.  I'll need to double check that nouveau is properly
> blacklisted (I think it is by the installer).

Does xrandr help?