Stuck on the boot screen...

[PainOfPine]

Yes there may be a way to change the resolution.

this requires command line and will kill your current desktop session.

press ctrl+alt+f1 to enter commandline

then login and execute these commands one at a time

if you are using a Debian Image run these commands

sudo apt-get install fbset
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo fbset -a -xres 1920  -yres  1200 -vxres 1920  -vyres  1200
sudo service lightdm start
exit

if you are using a Arch Image run these commands

sudo pacman -S fbset
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo fbset -a -xres 1920  -yres  1200 -vxres 1920  -vyres  1200
sudo service lightdm start
exit

then press ctrl+alt+f7 to return desktop

that should set your screen resolution to 1920x1200 hopefully

let me know how that goes

Hi, thanks for the assistance,

# sudo pacman -S fbset

   fbset installed ok

# sudo service lightdm stop

   I got the following error:- sudo: service: command not found

# sudo fbset -a -xres 1920  -yres  1200 -vxres 1920  -vyres  1200

   This just showed the fbset usage commands

# sudo fbset -a -xres 1920
# sudo fbset -a -yres  1200
# sudo fbset -a -vxres 1920
# sudo fbset -a -vyres  1200

   running as above seemed to work, but returning to the desktop showed no change, I assume this is because the 2nd command did not work and stop the service.

   running fbset before and after did show the resolution settings had changed to the ones I entered (but the actual screen is still at 1920 x 1080)

before:- 
geometry 1920 1080 1920 2160 32
timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24

after:-
geometry 1920 1200 1920 1200 32
timings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24

   I find it a bit odd that 2160 is there before making any changes.

Any suggestions welcome