My resolution is not available in resolution list

Hi everyone! I recently bought a new monitor and its 1680 by 1050 resolution is not present in the display settings option, or the Nvidia X Server Settings.
I’m currently using a GT710 and the resolution is available in Windows, so the card supports it.
My xrand --query displays

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1280 x 800, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-0 connected primary 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768      60.00 +
   1600x900      59.82  
   1400x900      59.88  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.91*   59.81  
   1280x720      59.86    59.74  
   1024x576      59.90    59.82  
   960x540       59.82    59.63  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   800x600       72.19    60.32    56.25  
   800x450       59.82  
   700x450       59.88  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x480       59.94  
   640x400       59.98    59.88  
   640x360       59.86    59.83  
   512x384       60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.82    59.63  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   400x300       72.19  
   320x240       60.05  
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

So my resolution is not on that list either.
Any tips?
Thanks!

display for inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 
  root=UUID=dde227ac-a17c-4c48-854b-4fd10e43c588 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7010 v: 01 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GY6Y8 v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A15 
  date: 08/12/2013 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.80 GiB used: 1.63 GiB (42.9%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-3220 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB bogomips: 26348 
  Speed: 2618 MHz min/max: 1600/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1597 2: 1596 
  3: 1596 4: 1596 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov 
  constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept 
  erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs lahf_lm 
  lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp 
  rep_good sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 
  tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xsave xsaveopt xtopology 
  xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 450.80.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:128b 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 75 s-size: 433x270mm (17.0x10.6") 
  s-diag: 510mm (20.1") 
  Monitor-1: VGA-0 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.80.02 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:1e20 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0f 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:1502 
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.55 TiB used: 8.08 GiB (0.2%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST31000524AS size: 931.51 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: JC45 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
  physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm 
  serial: <filter> rev: ABB0 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DT 101 G2 size: 3.66 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP 
  scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 
  size: 1.82 TiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B rotation: 7200 rpm 
  serial: <filter> rev: 0202 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 59.99 GiB size: 58.80 GiB (98.01%) used: 8.08 GiB (13.7%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 label: N/A 
  uuid: dde227ac-a17c-4c48-854b-4fd10e43c588 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 10.0 MiB size: 9.8 MiB (98.30%) 
  used: 300 KiB (3.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda6 label: N/A uuid: AC6D-DE7D 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 100.0 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A uuid: 4412-35C0 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 size: 16.0 MiB fs: <superuser/root required> label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 size: 870.90 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 8A68183268181F8D 
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 size: 505.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 6C1C5B6A1C5B2E78 
  ID-5: /dev/sdb1 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: N/A uuid: 01D592A798920DC0 
  ID-6: /dev/sdc1 size: 2.90 GiB fs: iso9660 label: MANJARO_KDE_2011 
  uuid: 2020-10-01-14-09-49-00 
  ID-7: /dev/sdc2 size: 4.0 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI uuid: 1AFD-57C6 
  ID-8: /dev/sdd1 size: 1.82 TiB fs: ntfs label: SAMSUNG 
  uuid: D2A6FE92A6FE75F7 
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
  Hub: 1-1.1:3 info: Dell ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 413c:1010 
  Device-1: 1-1.1.4:5 info: Dell type: Keyboard,Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 413c:2110 
  Device-2: 1-1.2:4 info: Primax 0Y357C PMX-MMOCZUL (B) [Dell Laser Mouse] 
  type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip ID: 0461:4d51 
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Toshiba Kingston DataTraveler 102/2.0 / HEMA Flash 
  Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0930:6545 serial: <filter> 
  Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 3-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
  Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
  Device-1: 4-4:2 info: Samsung D3 Station type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 04e8:6123 
  serial: <filter> 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 50% 
Info:
  Processes: 180 Uptime: 23m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A 
  Packages: pacman: 1154 lib: 314 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 
  running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05

Check if the monitor is active in arandr - navigate Outputs and activate the output if necessary - I don’t know how to navigate KDE but I reckon it must have a display section in system settings somewhere.

TIP: Use the codefence (three backticks) on separate lines before and after terminal output - or select the output and click the </> button in the comment toolbar.

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Sorry, how do I check that in arandr? I thought I’d do that by typing arandr - in the terminal but it gives me command not found.

Thanks for the tip

:grin:
Whenever someone tells you to run program and you get /bin/bash: program: command not found do this:

pamac install arandr
arandr 

and to navigate to the display settings in KDE:

  • Go to System Settings
  • type display c
  • Click Display configuration

:+1:

Thanks! Installed arandr and when trying to run it via terminal I get the following

    (arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.283: Theme parsing error: colors.css:71:44: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.283: Theme parsing error: colors.css:72:44: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.284: Theme parsing error: colors.css:74:53: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.284: Theme parsing error: colors.css:75:53: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.284: Theme parsing error: colors.css:76:56: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.284: Theme parsing error: colors.css:77:65: Invalid number for color value

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.285: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.285: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(arandr:7634): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:37:30.285: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:73:46: The style property GtkScrolledWindow:scrollbars-within-bevel is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version

(arandr:7634): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 19:37:30.319: gdk_atom_intern: assertion 'atom_name != NULL' failed

(arandr:7634): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 19:37:30.319: gdk_atom_intern: assertion 'atom_name != NULL' failed

Then when I go to output the resolution is still not available there or via KDE Display Config.

Tried to manually add the resolution via xrandr but I get the following error

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

I honestly don’t know what else to do

Yes arandr is a gtk application but that is usually not a problem.

I have no ideas on how to solve it - that is I have several ideas but I don’t think it will work.

Have you tried running nvidia-settings and configure the displays?

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The nvidia control center? Yeah, it doesn’t list my resolution either

  • The results returned by xrandr is the results received from the monitor.
  • Applying logic
    • the monitor does not support the resolution advertises.
    • If Windows is able to utilize the advertised resolution the capability is advertised on Windows.
      • the capability is advertised through an inf file

Have your tried other connection cable/type?

Windows is able to utilize the resolution, yes.
And oddly enough, on a VirtualBox machine the resolution is available out of the box.
Could I copy some files to make it work natively or that info would be hard coded on the nvidia driver?

Hi, @FabriciusFab
I don’t have a Nvidia card, but I tried to google for you and I found several problems related to the resolution of your monitor.

According to HERE and HERE, you could try to generate a xorg.conf from inside the nvidia-settings panel (it would put the file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d folder), then edit that file and add the line:

Option "IgnoreEDIDChecksum" "VGA-0"

to the Screen section.

Anyway, please do a backup at first. :wink:

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Hi gan, thanks for the tip! Will try that and get back here and say if that worked!

Unfortunately that did not do it.
I added my resolution and the option above to the file and still I can not get 1680x1050 anywhere