Display became too big for the screen after installing an update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
I am new to Linux and my laptop is asus gl552vw with two graphic cards, one of them is NVIDIA Gforce. I find both ASUS and NVIDIA have problem on Linux especially in terms of high resolution and all of the icons and screen were too small. So I used an additional Monitor with lower a resolution to work with. After a kernel update the Display became too big even the resolution shows correctly. I tried all the answers from these questions:
Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04
trying to figure out what happened with lightdm and Xorg
Ubuntu 18.04 Displays Issue -> Unknown Display
Everything on the screen is suddenly Huge
But they didn't work for me.
Any help is really appreciated and please remember I am new to Linux.
nvidia 18.04 display display-resolution
asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
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I am new to Linux and my laptop is asus gl552vw with two graphic cards, one of them is NVIDIA Gforce. I find both ASUS and NVIDIA have problem on Linux especially in terms of high resolution and all of the icons and screen were too small. So I used an additional Monitor with lower a resolution to work with. After a kernel update the Display became too big even the resolution shows correctly. I tried all the answers from these questions:
Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04
trying to figure out what happened with lightdm and Xorg
Ubuntu 18.04 Displays Issue -> Unknown Display
Everything on the screen is suddenly Huge
But they didn't work for me.
Any help is really appreciated and please remember I am new to Linux.
nvidia 18.04 display display-resolution
asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
G. Hak.G. Hak.
11
add a comment |
I am new to Linux and my laptop is asus gl552vw with two graphic cards, one of them is NVIDIA Gforce. I find both ASUS and NVIDIA have problem on Linux especially in terms of high resolution and all of the icons and screen were too small. So I used an additional Monitor with lower a resolution to work with. After a kernel update the Display became too big even the resolution shows correctly. I tried all the answers from these questions:
Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04
trying to figure out what happened with lightdm and Xorg
Ubuntu 18.04 Displays Issue -> Unknown Display
Everything on the screen is suddenly Huge
But they didn't work for me.
Any help is really appreciated and please remember I am new to Linux.
nvidia 18.04 display display-resolution
asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
G. Hak.G. Hak.
11
I am new to Linux and my laptop is asus gl552vw with two graphic cards, one of them is NVIDIA Gforce. I find both ASUS and NVIDIA have problem on Linux especially in terms of high resolution and all of the icons and screen were too small. So I used an additional Monitor with lower a resolution to work with. After a kernel update the Display became too big even the resolution shows correctly. I tried all the answers from these questions:
Display became too big for the screen after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04
trying to figure out what happened with lightdm and Xorg
Ubuntu 18.04 Displays Issue -> Unknown Display
Everything on the screen is suddenly Huge
But they didn't work for me.
Any help is really appreciated and please remember I am new to Linux.
nvidia 18.04 display display-resolution
nvidia 18.04 display display-resolution
asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
G. Hak.G. Hak.
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asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
G. Hak.G. Hak.
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asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
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asked Dec 21 '18 at 16:56
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I'm newbie too..
But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia.
After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0).
And faced with 'too big display' problem.
So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:
sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'
I found nvidia-340.
So next I executed this set of command:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and rebooted system
answered Jan 27 at 20:42
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I'm newbie too..
But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia.
After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0).
And faced with 'too big display' problem.
So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:
sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'
I found nvidia-340.
So next I executed this set of command:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and rebooted system
answered Jan 27 at 20:42
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I'm newbie too..
But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia.
After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0).
And faced with 'too big display' problem.
So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:
sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'
I found nvidia-340.
So next I executed this set of command:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and rebooted system
answered Jan 27 at 20:42
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I'm newbie too..
But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia.
After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0).
And faced with 'too big display' problem.
So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:
sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'
I found nvidia-340.
So next I executed this set of command:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and rebooted system
answered Jan 27 at 20:42
one more newbieone more newbie
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I'm newbie too..
But for me the solution was to install earlier version of nvidia.
After upgrade ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 I installed nvidia-352 (I used this instruction https://dev.to/bobnadler/ubuntu-1804-upgrade-problem-resolutions-1ni0).
And faced with 'too big display' problem.
So I used this command to know which versions of driver are in repository:
sudo apt-get update && clear && apt-cache search nvidia-[0-9] | grep 'binary driver'
I found nvidia-340.
So next I executed this set of command:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 nvidia-settings
sudo nvidia-xconfig
and rebooted system
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