scaling gone wonky

[mumblebaj]

@cyclonej Seems like a default screen resolution issue for me as some of the other modules are overlapping as well and they look unusually big. Suggest you try a different resolution setting and see if that resolves?

[MMRIZE]

@cyclonej
Show me the whole screen capture. And what resolution the screen has?

[cyclonej]

@MMRIZE

Currently 1024x768, maximum allowed.

[sdetweil]

@cyclonej horizontal/landscape mode, MagicMirror is designed for 1920x1080

so in portrait mode it should be 1080x1920

[cyclonej]

@sdetweil

I am marking this as solved. I think when I first booted up the Raspberry Pi, the resolution was 1920x1080. I am not sure what is preventing from going to that resolution now. That is where I will focus my troubleshooting.

Thanks all for the assistance.

[cyclonej]

@cyclonej said in scaling gone wonky:

@sdetweil

I am marking this as solved. I think when I first booted up the Raspberry Pi, the resolution was 1920x1080. I am not sure what is preventing from going to that resolution now. That is where I will focus my troubleshooting.

Thanks all for the assistance.

I spent another couple hours trying things in the preferences, display settings, even tried to modify the /boot/config to no avail. I then reseated the HDMI cable and the OS started allowing resolutions up to 1920x1080. MM looks great again!

Thanks again everyone for your help.

[sdetweil]

@cyclonej always amazed at how the simple this cause so much trouble

[cyclonej]

@cyclonej said in scaling gone wonky:

@cyclonej said in scaling gone wonky:

@sdetweil

I am marking this as solved. I think when I first booted up the Raspberry Pi, the resolution was 1920x1080. I am not sure what is preventing from going to that resolution now. That is where I will focus my troubleshooting.

Thanks all for the assistance.

I spent another couple hours trying things in the preferences, display settings, even tried to modify the /boot/config to no avail. I then reseated the HDMI cable and the OS started allowing resolutions up to 1920x1080. MM looks great again!

Thanks again everyone for your help.

After I got everything working nicely, I disconnected everything to move to the permanent installation location. Hung everything on kitchen wall, then reconnected everything and powered on… screen resolution stuck back on 1024x768.

[sdetweil]

@cyclonej dang it!

[cyclonej]

@sdetweil

I thought I would post the final fix for the screen resolution.

Through many Google searches, I found some commands that would theoretically would force the OS to use 1920x1080 resolution. (https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=274540)
However, I was receiving errors on execution of the cvt command.

cvt 1920 1080

More Google searches revealed that I had to install cvt.

sudo apt-get install xcvt

next, I was getting errors on the last xrandr command (setting the current output mode).

xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2276  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode WAYLAND1 1920x1080_60.00
xrandr --output WAYLAND1 --mode "1920x1080_60.00"

More Google searches indicated WAYLAND output is enabled when VNC is enabled for remote connections. More searches lead me to the raspi-config, where I found the display was set to ‘WAYLAND’. I had to change the display setting to X11. Now the commands could all succeed.

xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2276  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode HDMI-1 1920x1080_60.00
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --mode "1920x1080_60.00"

However, the resolution setting would not persist through a reboot. I started exploring how to set these xrandr commands to execute at startup. Google searches lead me to try modifying config files, which failed due to access denied. Then I remembered that MM uses pm2 to auto start when OS starts. So I created a .sh file to execute the xrandr commands and followed the same steps in MM (https://docs.magicmirror.builders/configuration/autostart.html#using-pm2) , replacing file names as needed, to launch my Set_Resolution.sh at startup.

Viola!

My raspberry pi 5 now boots up and sets screen to 1920x1080 right away!

It took a great deal of searching and learning how Raspberry Pi works. In the end, I got there.