Max resolution limited by 1080p

[dma]

Hi all ,

 

Just installed last supported version: 

Armbian 24.8.1 Noble Gnome, MESA / VPU, Kernel: 6.1.75, Size: 1.5 GB, Release date: Aug 26, 2024

 

I have 2 dell monitors : u2515h ultrasharp 1440p, and more modern P3424WE with 3440x1440 max resolution. With both - armbian max resolution in display settings is always 1920x1080.

 

My previous experience here was with radxa zero D1 and 1440p was working here smoothly out of box on different armbian images.

 

I also tried   Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)KDE NeonMESA / VPU  https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Jammy_current_kde-neon-kisak with same results: no resolution higher then 1080p

 

Rdp session to that installations normally propose 2560 and 3440x1440 resolutions available and usable. So I suppose it is some config but not driver/hardware issue.

Rdp installed via:

sudo apt install xrdp xorgxrd

sudo systemctl enable xrdp

 

The WEB is exploding with tons of guides with dozens of approaches, of course first tried not working...

 

Can somebody save me from that many hours try and fail circus and guide me on short way to troubleshoot resolution on that new armbian images?

 

 

 

 

[Igor]

1 hour ago, dma said:

The WEB is exploding with tons of guides with dozens of approaches, of course first tried not working...

 

Lower your expectations. Without our investments, this device would be in much more terrible state. Its not Armbian fault. Open source developers are also victims in this game. Just a lot bigger then you. 

 

1 hour ago, dma said:

Can somebody save me from that many hours try and fail circus and guide me on short way to troubleshoot resolution on that new armbian images?

Do you have any idea how many hours we are loosing because of your wrong purchases? How much hours is behind this:
https://docs.armbian.com/Release_Changelog/#v2481-2024-08-31 and your sympathy won't pay bills or compensate for the time. This is open source. All our competitors, that invest nothing, also have this.

But there is a solution for this extreme deficit of help from your side - invest hours if you don't invest money. Perhaps spent this time to rework documentation and help many more and also perhaps win a cool desktop device:

https://github.com/armbian/documentation/issues/467

 

[dma]

Calm down, the question was on resolution, not on my imagined greeding, wrong decisions, experiences and expectations. Know nothing about me, my goals, budget, exlerience , etc...

Question was to community, not for you. You kindly would have save time/resources  you complain not have too much and just not to produce your post above

[Igor]

4 minutes ago, dma said:

Question was to community, not for you.

99% of community doesn't not know the answer without spending hours and I am a part of it. 

 

4 minutes ago, dma said:

You kindly would have save time/resources  you complain

 

In both cases is my private time. I just gave you a hint how you could get your problem sorted, regardless who you are.

[dma]

Probably will be promptly fixed by installing older image or from some other project.

But OK, appeal noted - I'll check later how I can help the project

[Igor]

28 minutes ago, dma said:

Probably will be promptly fixed by installing older image or from some other project.

Older perhaps with kernel 5.10.y which is fundamentally different, but there you will run into different kind of troubles. Most of other projects are one man that downloads Armbian or use same code providing different user experience. And here we don't have user level problem.

 

2 hours ago, dma said:

radxa zero D1

Hardware interface, kernel, is totally different on this device. In general and also around video section. Sub-sequentially totally different software (drivers). 

 

It is possible that 1440p screen resolution is not even supported by the driver for this chip. But this is speaking blindly, without investigation the code. Or HDMI driver fails to auto-detect it, or ... there are many possibilities and nothing here is trivial.

 

41 minutes ago, dma said:

But OK, appeal noted - I'll check later how I can help the project

Thank you!

[dma]

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It is possible that 1440p screen resolution is not even supported by the driver for this chip

From my memory - there are not only one video on tube with 4k on that board. Some of them are already 1y old...   

Edited September 1 by dma

[dma]

Last Joshua image just did it for me

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop with Linux 6.1

Topic closed

Edited September 1 by dma

[dma]

Also Simple Orange Pi 5 plus ubuntu image from Orange pi web site solved my limited resolution  issues: Orangepi5plus_1.0.8_ubuntu_jammy_desktop_xfce_linux6.1.43.7z
Since installing it - 1440p 60 fps youtube video is runnig smoothly for long time with only 5% dropped frames. No freezing or crashing. Max resolution available: 3440x1400.

Edited September 16 by dma

[bolet75]

@dma

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with 6.1.43 vendor kernel, and am fine with mostly everything (wifi, bt, screen).

Updating to more recent kernels (including 6.1.75 vendor) was always breaking something (screen resolution over 1080p was one of them), so I froze kernel updates.

Vendor images lack specific Armbian improvements I got used to love (removed snaps, added zram swap and ramlog), so I'm not considering them.

The update to Ubuntu 24.04.1 stopped halfway, and my system was unbootable (a btrfs snapshot was great for restoring everything). Will try 24.04.2 upgrade when it's there.

I keep checking new Armbian Ubuntu desktop images from time to time.

One path would be to start fresh with a new Ubuntu 24.04 image, downgrade the kernel if needed, and restore my private stuff (configs + apts). Quite cumbersome.

 

I'm aware that Armbian has limited resources, am grateful for their work supporting so many SBCs: I have it running smoothly as server on 6 different models.