I3 Community Edition starts with green/purple lines on the screen

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It can be fixed if I plug it into an external monitor and run xrandr --auto which then allows me to use the laptop on the external monitor. Ideally I would like to fix this issue, and then extend the screen if it connects to the monitor.

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I have the same issue when I get to the login screen.

My default resolution is 3000x2000.
After I entered my password and changed my display resolution to 1920x1200 everything seems to be fine.

Here are some specs that might be useful.

[mrvn@mmo-mtbk ~]$ sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] Passwort für mrvn: 
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=3000x2000 visual=truecolor xres=3000 yres=2000
       resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:183 memory:601c000000-601cffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:3000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff

██████████████████  ████████   mrvn@mmo-mtbk 
██████████████████  ████████   ------------- 
██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: MACHD-WXX9 M1080 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 5.10.59-1-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 20 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1058 (pacman) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: bash 5.1.8 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 1920x1200 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: i3 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: Adapta-Nokto-Eta-Maia [GTK2/3]
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: Papirus-Adapta-Nokto-Maia [GTK
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: urxvt 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal Font: 9x15,xft 
                               CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4.700GHz 
                               GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
                               Memory: 1468MiB / 15805MiB

Best regards

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I’ve found a solution (or at least a workaround):

  1. Identify your internal display
    grep "\<connected\>"< <(xrandr)
    [mrvn@mmo-mtbk ~]$ grep "\<connected\>"< <(xrandr)
1: eDP1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
2: DP1 connected primary 3440x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 800mm x 330mm
[mrvn@mmo-mtbk ~]$
    In my case, (1) is my internal monitor and (2) is my external monitor. So I remember eDP1 as my internal display.
  2. Gather information about the resolution you want to use after booting the OS
    cvt 1920 1200 60 #(change values to fit your needs)
    This will output the modeline for using the resolution 1920x1200@60Hz
    In my case:
    Modeline "1920x1200_60.00"  193.25  1920 2056 2256 2592  1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync
  3. Create a file named 10-monitor.conf under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and paste those lines:
    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "eDP1"
    Modeline "1920x1200_60"  193.25  1920 2056 2256 2592  1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync
    Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200_60"
EndSection
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That is a problem when monitors are constantly pushed and pushed - an aspect ratio of 3:2 is like the old 4:3 ratio vga (800x600) svga (1024x768) and is bound to create problems when everything is created to 16:9 hd (1366x768) fhd (1920x1080) - even 16:10 fells awkward.

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You’re right.
That’s why I chose to use 16:10 instead of 3:2.
So far, I’ve never had those green/purple lines on laptops with native 16:9 or 16:10.

Well, I’m happy enough that it is working now.

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My solution ended up being changing my driver from intel to modesetting in xorg.conf.

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "modesetting" # used to be "intel"
	BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
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