Fedora 43 - Dell Precision 5690 - Intel Arc Graphics - Linux console resolution

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Hi,

I have Fedora 43 on my new work laptop (Dell Precision 5690), and i’m not able to set any mode for text console resolution except for 1920x1200.

On X/Wayland i can set several resolutions without any issue:

1920x1200
1680x1050
1440x900
1280x800

….

This is the lspci output for the graphics cards:

0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] [8086:7d55] (rev 08)

I tried with both kernel options:

video=efifb:width:1440,height:900

video=1440x900

On dmesg i can see this:

[ 2.589191] [drm] Initialized xe 1.1.0 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 2.599875] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: “1440x900”: 60 106441 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 0x20 0x6
[ 2.609762] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Allocated fbdev into stolen
[ 2.610883] fbcon: xedrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 2.610886] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: xedrmfb frame buffer device
[ 2.626341] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: “1440x900”: 60 106441 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 0x20 0x6
[ 2.653202] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: “1440x900”: 60 106441 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 0x20 0x6
[ 2.700233] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Selective fetch area calculation failed in pipe A
[ 2.707565] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT1: found GSC cv102.1.0
[ 2.720515] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] User-defined mode not supported: “1440x900”: 60 106441 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 0x20 0x6
[ 23.524510] xe 0000:00:02.0: [drm] ERROR GT1: GSC proxy component not bound!

Anyone has any idea what might be the problem?

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Can you change font size instead?

What desktop are you on
? Gnome?

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Let’s start from what you want to achieve: Why do you want to set 1440x900 instead of 1920x1080? Is it because you want to increase font size? In that case, you can install or generate a larger font and set that in /etc/vconsole.conf.

In my experience, you can set all VESA resolutions and 1920x1080 without issues on most BIOS/UEFI implementations, other resolutions are hit or miss.

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Yes, the main reason is to increase the font size.

I tried also 1920x1080 and 1280x720 and no go, only accepts 1920x1200.

I will try to increase the font on /etc/vconsole.conf

Thank you.

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Changing font size in /etc/vconsole.conf works, though i had to remove rhgb option from boot options in order to show on boot messages.

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Probably that is the native resolution of the display (I am guessing, you did not say, and the Dell website for the laptop model comes up with two display options with different resolutions). As a general remark, I would always suggest driving a display with its native resolution and then adjusting the font size as necessary. Letting the display scale up fewer pixels is always going to reduce sharpness.

You never said that this is what you were looking for. But I am glad you found a solution that works.

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