Hey there, I've been using Zorin for about 2-3 months now, but i'm new to this community. I've tried everything in the previous advice, but i still can't set my res to 1920x1080 Yes, it is the optimal resolution for my monitor and am not on a VM.
damn im late
If you want to try the xrandr commands, please switch to Xorg first. Xrandr doesn't work with Wayland.
To do this, logout and at login click on your username, then a cog wheal appears at the bottom right corner. There you can switch between Xorg and Wayland.
If you have an Nvidia card, you may also need the right drivers for the card.
Can you please tell us, what graphics you have?
I use Xorg because of my graphic tablet already? The driver doesn't work with Wayland
I have a pretty ancient Zotac CI260NANO barebone
Yes, it has the capacity to run Win11 smoothly but i don't use it
Here are the result of my tried commands
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr -s 1920x1080
Size 1920x1080 not found in available modes
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"
xrandr: failed to parse '1920x1080_60.00' as a mode specification
Try 'xrandr --help' for more information.
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --query
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-1 connected primary 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1280x800 59.91*
1024x768 60.00
800x600 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"
xrandr: failed to parse '1920x1080_60.00' as a mode specification
Try 'xrandr --help' for more information.
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr -s 1920x1080
Size 1920x1080 not found in available modes
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --query
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-1 connected primary 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1280x800 59.91*
1024x768 60.00
800x600 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"
xrandr: failed to parse '1920x1080_60.00' as a mode specification
Try 'xrandr --help' for more information.
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ cvt 1920 1080 59
Modeline "1920x1080_59.00" 169.00 1920 2040 2240 2560 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_59.00" 169.00 1920 2040 2240 2560 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_59.00" 169.00 1920 2040 2240 2560 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (RRCreateMode)
Serial number of failed request: 32
Current serial number in output stream: 32
ultishayaan@Bombadiclat:~$ xrandr --query
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 16384 x 16384
DP-1 connected primary 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
1280x800 59.91*
1024x768 60.00
800x600 72.19 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1920x1080_59.00 (0x54e) 169.000MHz -HSync +VSync
h: width 1920 start 2040 end 2240 total 2560 skew 0 clock 66.02KHz
v: height 1080 start 1083 end 1088 total 1120 clock 58.94Hz
BTW I use Zorin on main OS, no VM or dual-boot stuff here
I use Xorg cuz of driver issues alr
We need more informations about your system. Which graphics card do you have? If it is an nvidia card, which drivers are installed? You can post the answers in your own thread which you have created.
For my Microsoft Surface tablet I can adjust the resolution using settings/displays/resolution I have much finer resolution selected but I can switch to the 1920x1080 that you want. It just means not much can be seen on the screen because the text is so big.