Screen problem on boot

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Running on a Dell XPS 15. When I boot I get a distorted login screen and desktop. After changing resolution in arandr and then back it resolves. Wondering if there is something I can do to permanently fix the issue.

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.36-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  Desktop: Budgie 10.5.2 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 15 9570 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 02MJVY v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.16.2 
  date: 04/21/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 22.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 22.3/56.0 Wh (39.7%) 
  volts: 12.8 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL CP6DF87 status: Full 
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball 
  charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check rev: A cache: L2: 9 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 52815 
  Speed: 1254 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1254 2: 1212 
  3: 1202 4: 1206 5: 1205 6: 1219 7: 1227 8: 1223 9: 1247 10: 1254 11: 1202 
  12: 1202 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-12:7 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel,nouveau 
  unloaded: modesetting resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1440x2560~60Hz 
  3: 2560x1440~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  Device-2: Razer USA Razer Seiren Mini type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-1.1:4 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.36-2-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Rivet Networks driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 3b:00.0 
  IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: br-d5490162fac3 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-4:3 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 95.34 GiB (40.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: PM981 NVMe 256GB 
  size: 238.47 GiB temp: 33.9 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 216.83 GiB used: 95.32 GiB (44.0%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 18.1 MiB (6.1%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 73.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 40.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2509 fan-2: 2496 
Info:
  Processes: 313 Uptime: 8m Memory: 15.28 GiB used: 2.79 GiB (18.2%) 
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1511 
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 inxi: 3.3.04
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What resolution is it at when it’s distorted? A workaround rather than a real fix would be to make an xrandr script and have it run upon login.

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Can you please post /etc/default/grub

Maybe this post is helping:

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I’m using lighdm so I have been trying to set ‘display-setup-script’ and ‘session_setup_script’ to a script that I normally use to set the resolution. However, neither script isn’t running or nothing is happening when it is run. The script does work when run manually.

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Things are fine until the login manager shows up. No problems with GRUB. That being said I tried your suggestion and it didn’t do anything.

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